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Messenger Execs Sue Failed Startup for Reneging on Big Payouts Promised to Them

PAY ME MY MONEY DOWN

Each exec seeks at least $150K payouts they say CEO Finkelstein promised them when they signed onto his doomed media startup.

An illustration including a snake and The Messenger logo
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A month after Jimmy Finkelstein’s quixotic media startup The Messenger crashed and burned, suddenly leaving hundreds jobless, three business-side executives are suing the media mogul’s “centrist” news site for welching on the hefty severance packages promised to them.

In a complaint filed in New York County this week against The Messenger,...

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