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Even though I loathe Uber I read their lawyer saying the ex-employee was extorting them. Then I read that Uber paid him 4.5 million ... umm Uber paid that much

Even though I loathe Uber I read their lawyer saying the ex-employee was extorting them. Then I read that Uber paid him 4.5 million ... umm Uber paid that much to an extortionist for claims that aren’t truthful? Ok yeah right .. whose pays that much to silence a lier?

joering2 9y ago
Here is one for $32MM https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-settlement_us_59ee51c1e4b0d8293cabf845 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-settlement...
jlgaddis 9y ago
Really, Uber paid $7,500,000 to "settle" that little dispute -- although his lawyer got a 40% cut, leaving him with "only" $4.5MM. To me, at least, it seems even worse when you think about it that way.
on_and_off 9y ago
The theory is that you might be inclined to pay in order to avoid a scandal that would be costlier. For this kind of scandal, my armchair opinion is that you still have to do something at least a bit murky in order to allow yourself to be black mailed.
- scoggs 9y ago
  Agreed. Back when the news of the payoff first became public things were a lot murkier in terms of the broad picture but now that we've had the lid peeled back and we can see a bit more. It seems a bit more obvious, to me at least, that Uber was and still is doing whatever it can to try to get to final valuation / being bought out / IPO before the severity of the scandal was fully known. I also think that we've reached the point of no return for that matter so I'm definitely interested to see how Uber and this entire debacle winds up.
- CodeWriter23 9y ago
  Perhaps there's an undercurrent of it being easy to spend someone else's 7.5M (ALL of Uber's money is VC money) to avoid the scandal.
DonHopkins 9y ago
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/365036-the-simpsons-depicts-trump-trying-to-bribe-mueller http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/365036-the-...

joering2 9y ago

Here is one for $32MM https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-settlement_us_59ee51c1e4b0d8293cabf845 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-settlement...

jlgaddis 9y ago

Really, Uber paid $7,500,000 to "settle" that little dispute -- although his lawyer got a 40% cut, leaving him with "only" $4.5MM. To me, at least, it seems even worse when you think about it that way.

on_and_off 9y ago

The theory is that you might be inclined to pay in order to avoid a scandal that would be costlier. For this kind of scandal, my armchair opinion is that you still have to do something at least a bit murky in order to allow yourself to be black mailed.

scoggs 9y ago
Agreed. Back when the news of the payoff first became public things were a lot murkier in terms of the broad picture but now that we've had the lid peeled back and we can see a bit more. It seems a bit more obvious, to me at least, that Uber was and still is doing whatever it can to try to get to final valuation / being bought out / IPO before the severity of the scandal was fully known. I also think that we've reached the point of no return for that matter so I'm definitely interested to see how Uber and this entire debacle winds up.
CodeWriter23 9y ago
Perhaps there's an undercurrent of it being easy to spend someone else's 7.5M (ALL of Uber's money is VC money) to avoid the scandal.

DonHopkins 9y ago

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/365036-the-simpsons-depicts-trump-trying-to-bribe-mueller http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/365036-the-...