Last fall, Steve Easterbrook walked away with a severance package estimated to be worth $42 million. McDonald’s is now suing to get the full amount back.
for violating company policy by engaging in an inappropriate relationship with an employee.
At the time, Easterbrook alleged — and an outside investigation affirmed — that the relationship was consensual and non-physical , and the only relationship that Easterbrook had ever had with a McDonald’s employee. But according to thethat McDonald’s filed in a state court in Delaware, the company received an anonymous tip in July, alleging that Easterbrook had had a sexual relationship with another employee during his time as CEO.
Per the lawsuit, Easterbrook had also sent nudes and sexually explicit photos and videos of women, including those of the aforementioned employees, from his work email account to his personal email account. Easterbrook had deleted the photos, taken between late 2018 and early 2019, from his company phone when he turned it over for the investigation last fall — but the photos apparently still existed on his work email account on the McDonald’s servers, the company discovered last month.
The lawsuit also alleges that Easterbrook had approved a special discretionary grant of restricted stock units worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to one of the employees after their first sexual encounter, within days before their second encounter. These transgressions constitute not just generally unethical scumbag behavior, but more pertinent to the lawsuit, lying, concealing of evidence, and fraud as they relate to Easterbrook’s separation package from McDonald’s. Last fall, the board of directors had the choice to either terminate Easterbrook “with cause” or “without cause.
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