“He was absolutely convinced that it was safer than crossing the street,’ Jay Bloom wrote on Facebook. “But he was very wrong.”
The NY Post got their hands on some pretty damning text messages where this CEO was irresponsibly downplaying the risks and cutting the ticket price for a potential prospect. I know he’s dead now, but I hope some sort of regulations come out of this.
This guy was shopping around discount tickets in a way that makes it seem like his company was in financial trouble. Willing to take a $100K haircut on the ticket price just to get bodies on the sub?
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This guy was shopping around discount tickets in a way that makes it seem like his company was in financial trouble. Willing to take a $100K haircut on the ticket price just to get bodies on the sub?
He’s got bodies on the sub now.
I don’t think you can say there is a sub at this point
nor bodies.
In interviews he’s said they were operating at a loss on a previous trip.