An executive at a major company who was facing a $1 billion class action lawsuit for illegally manipulating stock prices believed to have jumped to his death from a posh, famous New York City skyscraper this past weekend. Police have identified the man as Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond.
The New York Post reports:
A Bed Bath & Beyond exec was facing a $1.2 billion “pump-and-dump” stock-fraud suit when he apparently leaped to his death from his swank 18th-floor apartment in Lower Manhattan last week.
Gustavo Arnal, who was the chief financial officer of BBB, is among the defendants named in a class-action suit that accuses him, Chewy.com founder Ryan Cohen and others of artificially inflating the troubled housewares giant’s share price.
The class-action complaint, filed Aug. 23 in Washington, DC, federal court, alleges that the scheme also involved “a classic attempt to spark a gamma squeeze.”
Arnal’s death comes at a time the lawsuit, stemming from a plaintiff’s argument that she bought over 8,000 shares of BBY between March and August of this year, has expanded to include clients whose total investments within that time frame exceeded $1.2 billion.
The company also announced it would be closing over 150 namesake stores and layoff over 20% of its workforce.
And why did it have to shutter all those stores? Well because they went woke, of course. The DC Enquirer reported as much, saying:
The home goods store Bed Bath & Beyond is facing a bit of karma after they removed Mike Lindell’s MyPillow from their shelves back in 2021. The national retailer claims they pulled the products over low sales; however, many believe the real reason was Lindell’s support of Former President Donald Trump and his refusal to accept the election outcome in 2020.
The has-been retail giant’s stock has tanked recently. The business has been forced to lay off employees and close multiple locations to try and stop the bleeding. However, these attempts don’t seem to be making a difference, with the stock prices continuing to plummet.
The class-action suit sits in stark contrast to Arnal, who reportedly sold around $1 million worth of shares in mid-August as his alleged pump-and-dump scheme was reaching its zenith. Arnal made over $3 million in 2021 between salary and stock compensations.
During its turbulent year, Bed Bath & Beyond has made regular appearances in the news. ZeroHedge wrote just a few weeks ago that the pumping and dumping in this classic gamma squeeze netted a twenty-year-old college student over $100 million while playing the company on the stock market, saying:
20-year-old university student, Jake Freeman, who is an applied mathematics and economics major at the University of Southern California, managed to accumulate 6.2% of the entire outstanding stock of Bed Bath & Beyond at under $5.50 share (did we mention he is a 20-year-old university student) amounting to $27 million, which he announced in an activist 13-G letter to BBBY Management on July 21, 2022, and less than a month later sold out of his entire stake – thanks to the insane gamma squeeze in the stock – not through some prime broker but through his TD Ameritrade and Interactive Brokers accounts, making $110 million in the process!
Of course, while it’s a feel-good story, it’s also a riches-to-riches one as well. How many college kids have access to $27 million to invest in a dying big box retail chain? Even Joe Biden can’t forgive those kinds of loans…yet.
Sadly only the beginning of the depths of desperation of people in joey/obama’s. Recession racing to Depression!! ONLY NOV VOTING can save us!
lesson learn c e o you go woke you go broke
I bet Gustavo Arnal would have loved to land on some of Mike Lindell’s My Pillows.