{"id":518806,"date":"2026-03-06T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:55:07","slug":"ai-startup-sues-ex-ceo-saying-he-took-41gb-of-email-and-lied-on-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518806\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on r\u00e9sum\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/27758555-hayden-ai-v-carson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21-page civil complaint<\/a>, the saga began in early 2024, when Carson is said to have surreptitiously sold over $1.2 million worth of Hayden AI stock without the approval of its board of directors so that he could fund the purchase of a multimillion dollar home in Boca Raton, Fla., and multiple luxury items, including a \u201cgold Bentley Continental\u201d car.<\/p>\n<p>By July, the complaint continues, the company began a formal investigation into Carson\u2019s behavior. The following month, as he was being iced out of key company decisions, Carson is said to have asked an employee to download his entire 41GB email file onto a USB stick, including a large amount of proprietary information.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden AI formally terminated Carson on September 10, 2024, just days after he registered the <a href=\"http:\/\/echotwin.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">echotwin.ai<\/a> domain name.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the alleged financial fraud, Hayden AI claims that Carson\u2019s entire professional background, ranging from the length of his US military service to his having founded a company called \u201cLouisa Manufacturing\u201d (as depicted on LinkedIn), is also bogus. The complaint calls Carson\u2019s CV a \u201ccarefully constructed fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Carson\u2019s LinkedIn profile, he completed a doctorate from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a lie,\u201d the complaint states. \u201cCarson does not hold a PhD from Waseda or any other university. In 2007, he was not obtaining a PhD but was operating \u2018Splat Action Sports,\u2019 a paintball equipment business in a Florida strip mall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per the 21-page civil complaint, the saga began in early 2024, when Carson is said to have surreptitiously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-518806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}