This is relevant in establishing character of the family at the center of this legal and ethical debacle. Matt's personal investment vehicle, Audrey, hired nursing staff to care for his mother, Kathleen. It might be true that these staff members were hired in both Texas, and California but I am unable to confirm. Nevertheless, these staff members were fired by Audrey/Mullenwegs, and they have responded by filing wrongful termination, and employment law violation lawsuits against Audrey, and the Mullenweg family. The allegations are apparently that .. "employees subjected to racist, religiously motivated, and sexually explicit comments at work" This is an ongoing case being heard in California court.
Lawsuit information is here: https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sfc-asmahan-attayeb-vs-matthew-c-mullenweg-et-al-693508
The first step in this case seems to have been the nursing staff successfully defending themselves against Audrey invoking forced arbitration to avoid going to litigation, citing some perfunctory employment paperwork signatures. Audrey was unable to prove that the staff had, in fact, signed this paperwork. Some details here: https://calg.com/michael-von-loewenfeldt-obtains-victory-for-abused-employees-in-appeal-of-arbitration-denial/
I am not sure how the existence of this lawsuit has yet to surface in the midst of this WPE debacle.
Oh hey, someone just posted this exact same thing on a throwaway account, so I’ll post my comment here as well.
> This is relevant in establishing character of the family at the center of this legal and ethical debacle.
It’s not. This has nothing to do with the WordPress project as we know it. Leave people’s family issues out of it, IMO