February 19, 2014
Former Playboy Enterprises Inc. accounting executive Catherine Zulfer told a California federal jury on Tuesday that the adult entertainment publisher fired her for alerting its general counsel to what she deemed an attempted embezzlement of $1 million by her superiors.
April 26, 2013
Playboy Enterprises Inc. convinced a California federal judge Wednesday to cut claims from a former vice president's suit accusing it of terminating her for blowing the whistle on company executives' push for a $1 million bonus pool by skirting internal accounting controls.
February 11, 2013
A California federal judge on Monday tentatively allowed a former Playboy Enterprises Inc. vice president's wrongful termination lawsuit to proceed, saying she adequately pleaded that her firing was in retaliation for threatening to blow the whistle on company executives for allegedly circumventing internal accountng controls surrounding accruals for bonuses.
September 28, 2012
A former accounting executive for Playboy Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday launched a whistleblower suit against the company, claiming she was fired after alerting general counsel of what she deemed an attempted embezzlement of $1 million by her superiors.