Rather useless to speculate.
Consider this...our Chairman of the Board, L.Randolph Dumas, is a well known and well connected Wall Street/ Investment banking Exec. and so are our other Board members. We have such board members for their connections and influence they can bring to bear on situations like this ( I am not even convinced that "paid for" article is real....I doubt he spoke with Dumas at all, let alone Dumas saying what the author purported him to say....not his style and he would not make any comments until confiding in Corporate Counsel anyway). The BOD is the oversight for the Management of this company and I am convinced they, along with the senior Executives, will deal with this as they should.
I think this article is a scam like the others...
Get some good sleep...I am....and rely on the recent SHM guidance provided and the hard work all of these dedicated GTE employees are doing for us all!!!
My humble opinion......
Danielle
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