Mesa’s CFO Placed on Leave for Possible Misconduct

Sep 24th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

The situation at Mesa Airlines involving their behavior in the Hawaiian market has just gotten a bit uglier: the company has placed its CFO on administrative leave after it was alleged that he deleted files related to a lawsuit that Hawaiian Airlines filed against Mesa. Hawaiian alleges that Mesa placed a takeover bid for Hawaiian as a way to learn how Hawaiian operates to Mesa could launch its own intra-island airline (called Go!).

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