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Employee arrested after CEO found dead inside burning building near Chicago (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this article here - https://abc7chicago.com/post/crestwood-murder-court-records-reveal-josif-sucleas-alleged-back-pay-plot-atg-truckload-ceo-dane-koteski/16040397/ - lists the reason was that his employees were being stiffed of their back-pay

Koteski had recently told Suclea that ATG Truckload "was going bankrupt." Even though Koteski "owed a substantial amount of money to Suclea," Koteski "was unable to pay him."

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That’s what a lawsuit is for, not a killing. I’m all for whipping out the guillotine, but it’s gotta be for something substantial.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

The driver has cancer. Instead of informing workers of financial problems, this CEO was having him work for pay and medical coverage that the CEO had no intention of providing.

Fucking with a cancer patient is "substantial".

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wage theft is the most common and least enforced property crime in America.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I doubt you have a statistic to back that up.

Regardless, this person didn’t kill them for the greater good, or to make a political and social statement. They killed them out of anger, and it did nothing for the greater good. This guy is not Luigi. He’s just a killer.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the OP, but this fact is widely attested. The statistic is right on the Wikipedia page for wage theft. In 2012, the FBI estimated it to be more than $19 billion in total. The next-highest category of property crime was larceny, at $4.3 billion.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. Still, the “CEO” of a small trucking company shouldn’t be killed for wage theft. Cut his hand off.

[–] KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it was substantial to the employees whose work was going unpaid. And it's all too easy for companies to rebrand with a different name and ditch their obligations. VPNSecure was just called out doing exactly that.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -1 points 1 week ago

One could say a dollar is substantial. There are very easy ways to correct the issue without killing people.

But, if you fuck with people you find out, right?