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Gareb Shamus is going to have a very Merry Christmas
By Zach Arnold | December 20, 2007
The IFL filed a form 8k on Tuesday with the SEC, announcing the terms of their consulting agreement with Gareb Shamus. Shamus is being eased out of the IFL, but not without a sweet payday.
Retroactive to 11/20/2007 and ending on 5/20/2008, Shamus will be paid $20,833 USD per month for the next six months (or a sum amount of $125,000 USD).
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Damnit I wish I was a part of the Illuminati.
Well, that’s a nice brass parachute.
If that.
Heck, Cro Cop makes almost three times that to lose.
^Yeah, but he has to get the stuffing knocked out of him. This is like free money in a way.
Free money after two years of sinking his life into a useless diversion. Still … nice to see the IFL can’t afford decent headlining fights but can dump money on an exec like that. Horay for cost cutting!
Do you think $100K is going to make a difference for Shamus? Have you seen golden parachutes from real companies? Compared to what he probably lost with the IFL, that severance payment is chump change anyway.
I agree with #5. Compared to what Shamus makes as the founder and CEO of Wizard Entertainment Group and as publisher of 5 magazines with a worldwide circulation of 40 million copies a month, $120G’s a year is nice but not that amazing. I think Shamus saw the writing on the wall for the IFL and jumped ship at the right time.
I don’t think that would even count as a brass parachute. Maybe wood? Maybe not even a parachute. More like they’re handing him a $20 and pushing him out of the plane.
…which puts him in a better spot than those still onboard, headed rapidly into the waters of the bermuda triangle.
I wonder how many shares he’s still holding?