In their own words

Leslie Bocskor

 

THE FIRM:  With a global reputation for leadership and vision, Electrum Partners is an advisory services firm specializing in medical and recreational cannabis and ancillary businesses, founded by Leslie Bocskor, former investment banker known for success, leadership and disruption in emerging markets, technologies and finance.  The experienced senior leadership team takes great pride in engineering the underpinnings of successful business entries and exits across the full spectrum of cannabis business verticals, and helping to develop policy and regulatory frameworks with an acute understanding and knowledge of regulatory complexities.

 

 

WHAT WE DO: We partner with private and public companies, policy-makers, governments, entrepreneurs and investors looking for an edge to improve and maximize shareholder value and liquidity, as well as companies that are looking to make the private-to-public transition.  We know that cannabis is not a single industry but dozens of sub-industries, each with its own barriers-to-entry, capital requirements, unique market traits, and paths to success. As we help bring your ideas to fruition, we draw upon our ability to identify opportunities and create wins. You can count on Electrum Partners to help grow your business’ value and footprint, assisting you to navigate through markets where tumultuous dynamics are at work.

 

What Is Johnston Alleging ?

Blogger News Network  reports

http://www.bloggernews.net/140013

According to Johnston’s lawsuit, two sets of individuals inside Electrum were engaged in romantic relationships. The first set involved one of the firm’s managing members, who was having an affair with a subordinate, posing a risk to the company. The second involved a male executive and an administrative assistant. Johnston brought both of these to Bocskor’s attention who, according to the lawsuit, did nothing.

Johnston also informed the head of Human Resources but alleges the HR staffer did nothing – because she is the lover of the mother of the offending male executive.

“Office romance — more specifically, office sex – brings with it a host of liabilities that companies need to take seriously,” Johnston says. “Pulling a ‘Harvey Weinstein’ when those in charge look the other way, has hopefully come to an end. I saw something, so I said something.”

Johnston’s whistleblowing apparently didn’t sit well with Electrum’s managing members.

When she informed Electrum of her diagnosis in June, Johnston alleges that Bocskor engaged in a series of actions that violated the NYCHRL, including firing her.

In the post Johnston also accuses Bocskor of reneging on a previously agreed loan offer, and the same with regard to an agreement to supply her, “difficult-to-obtain cannabis-based oil used in cancer treatments”

She also told the  Town Hall media outlet that, this past March, Bocskor confirmed that her equity position in Electrum had vested, which Johnston says is now worth $500,000. “Yet, while acknowledging that they owe me money, they refuse to pay what they agree they owe, despite knowing I am a single mother with stage four metastatic cancer and a dependent child.”

But wait there’s more !
Her lawsuit also alleges that Electrum attempted to justify Johnston’s firing by conducting an audit of her expenses, despite those expenses having already been approved  in a process that took sixty days.