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Fishy things about CEO shooting
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- losing track of a perp in fucking Manhattan
- the other pic of the perp (with mask up) looks totally different, diff eyebrows, diff backpack, has coat hoodie up instead of sweater hoodie
- dude was just casually outside of McDs in broad daylight while on the run (not innawoods? not moving in the evening?)
- shooter is rich and his family owns a line of retirement homes
- Brian Thompson is a new start, was never CEO of anything before 2021 (father was a grain elevator worker)
- Brian Thompson is also excluded from the past Wikipedia pages of UnitedHealthCare, (apparently not important enough to mention?)
- The only consistent CEO on said pages is Andrew Witty (still CEO now, and was CEO from 2021 along with Brian)
- Andrew Witty also served as CEO of GlaxoSmithKline from 2008-2017, showing a decade of full experience
- Witty was management trainee when he was 19yo, was appointed president of GSK europe in 2003 (at 39 yo), and advised Prime Minister David Cameron 2010-2015. A very experienced fellow!
- UHC's profits were 17B in 2021 and 21B in 2022. Brian Thompson was getting a salary of only 10M per year from 2021-24. This seems like a pretty low profit:CEO wage ratio, but more analysis is necessary
- there was some embezzlement thing where Brian defrauded 17M, Steven Hemsley (executive chariman) defrauded 102M, and Witty defrauded a few million. Brian was set to testify soon. Hemsley took home almost all of the money.
- how did the shooter even know where to find Brian?
I wont bother checking right now but you can look at his SEC fillings for what he was doing with his shares if anything. Executives are mostly paid in shares and bonuses not just a salary. In fact this is exactly the point why sometimes social and economic inequality measurements can skew towards liberal apologia since salary very obviously doesn't equal wealth so capitalist societies can have lower wage inequality but higher wealth inequality where most of the money is made through financial instruments not wages.