Also, that statute required
the court to award me three times whatever damages I proved I had
suffered, plus court costs and attorney's fees.
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CHAPTER V. Tilting at windmills for fun and profit
5: Paragraph 1 At the same time the events I've described were
happening to me at Hutton Trust, someone else was having a similar
experience at another company incorporated in Delaware. Like me he was
a senior executive at a subsidiary of a national conglomerate and a
shareholder in the conglomerate, but unlike me he was the CEO of the sub
because he'd started the smaller company and sold it to the
conglomerate, and his block of the parent's stock was significant. Like
me he was dissatisfied with the asinine and illegal way the conglomerate
was operating and how it was forcing him to operate the sub, and he'd
been telling the national press about it.
5: Paragraph 2 By the summer of 1986 he'd given the conglomerate an
ultimatum with three alternatives: Either let him run the sub the way
it should be run or buy him out so he could leave, or else he'd sue
them. After that his story is vastly different from mine, but then he
was H. Ross Perot, the conglomerate was GM, and his sub was EDS.
5: Paragraph 3 GM did buy Perot's GM stock back, and he resigned
from EDS and promised to quit criticizing GM, but GM paid him so many
millions of dollars that its shareholders sued GM and Perot, calling the
payment "hushmail.
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