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An email sent in March from a former employee in the finance department to top management which was reviewed by The Times said MBN had $8 million in its accounts, including $4.7 million that could have been used to cover unused annual leave and partial severance.

It also split the managerial class: You have CEOs and other top management getting rewarded with stock options, so they become completely aligned with the owners of capital.

That deal brought to the C-suite the acquired company’s top management and its cost-cutting culture; in the Boeing corridors, the standing joke was that “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.”

Thompson’s plan comes after years of ownership changes, top management shakeups, staff cutbacks, declining TV ratings and a loss of the swagger the network had when it sparred with the first Trump administration.

"People in Boeing don't believe in words from top management any more," he says.