Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Bed, Bath & Beyond, was named in a huge lawsuit before he jumped to his death from a Manhattan building on Friday.
named in a class-action suit that claims that he was among a group of stock traders who artificially inflated Bed Bath & Beyond's stock in what is called a 'pump and dump' scheme.
Arnal recently sold more than 50,000 shares when the stock was in the upper $30s a share. A short time later it plunged to less than $10.and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business. The home goods retailer based in Union, New Jersey said it will also slash its workforce by 20%. It also said it is considering selling more of its stock to shore up its finances and had lined up more than $500 million of new financing.As of May, the retailer operated a total of 955 stores, including 769 Bed Bath & Beyond stores, 135 buybuy Baby stores, and 51 stores under the names Harmon, Harmon Face Values or Face Values. As of February, it had roughly 32,000 employees.
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