I'm Peter Lindner. For 4 years, I've tried to get Amex to enforce their non-discrimination policies and their Code of Conduct.
I've created a YouTube.com ad on my American Express Shareholder Proposal for either the:
If you do nothing else, please watch this video.
And for SEC reasons, here's what I say:
"I was sexually harassed by my supervisor Qing Lin at American Express.
When I complained to HR, Qing arranged to have me fired.
I feel that one way to help fight discrimination is to have a Truth Commission at American Express where it looks into what people have done and if they tell the truth, Amex won’t punish them.
I’m fighting for my case, but I’m also fighting for all the other people at American Express whoever have been sexually harassed in the last 15 years or have been discriminated against.
I’m trying to look out for your interests in my shareholder proposal"
Amex has gone to great lengths to stop me from even putting on the proxy for a vote this Proposal against discrimination. Amex went so far as to lie before a federal judge (which in NY State is a criminal misdemeanor under NY Judiciary 487 "intent to deceive" the Court by an attorney). Amex's two law firms (a)Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and (b)Kelley Drye & Warren LLP told US District Judge Koeltl that Amex did not try to stop me from communicating with the SEC prior to 2009. In fact, Amex stopped me from communicating with the SEC and from attending the Amex April 2007 Shareholder Meeting, under pain of Contempt of Court if I did so. Ms. Park of KDW enforced an alleged oral agreement (which Amex got Magistrate Judge Katz to keep sealed) while refusing to write it down, so that I could sign it and then revoke it in up to 7 days.
Finally, this week I tried to get CEO Ken Chenault, Esq. to explain how he wrongly stopped my proposal and misled Amex Shareholders at the April 27 2009 meeting, but Ken refused to address the more than 20 points in what I consider to be materially false statements. In fact, Amex sought to stop me from even getting the April 2009 written transcript for 10 months, even though I asked for it on the day of the April 2009 Meeting and did not get it until March 5, 2010.
In the Amex Code of Conduct, CEO Ken says that all Amex people are subject to its rules, yet Ken and Secretary of the Corporation Carol Schwartz, Esq.are not living up to their obligations to respectively cooperate with investigations into violations by Ken, and Ms. Schwartz's obligation to investigate.
To sum up:
- Amex lied to a federal judge last year (April 2009) to stop my Shareholder Proposal
- I have a 40 second video on YouTube (key word: Peter10003) on that proposal
- CEO Ken Chenault may have made misleading statements to the April 2009 Shareholders when he replied to my Proposal about the "integrity and values of our employees" - clearly Qing Lin who admitted only after 4 years a coverup and breach of a June 2000 contract is not a model of integrity nor values.
- Ms. Schwartz will not investigate, and Mr. Chenault will not comment in advance on the inconsistencies or perhaps misleading statements he made to the Amex Shareholders in the April 2009 meeting.
- Amex needs a Truth Commission to get the scope of the problem of discrimination which happened to me, and took 4 years and tens of thousands of my dollars to just get Amex to admit they lied and that Qing breached paragraphs 12 and 13 the June 2000 contract signed by me and by Ash Gupta, now the President of Banking at Amex
- I requested the videos from the Court, but they denied that proof to me. I wanted to show Amex Shareholders and the SEC that Amex's VP Jason Brown Esq. admitted that Qing told him in February 2006 that “I don’t think Peter Lindner can work at American Express” and that Qing admitted he violated paragraph 13 on not giving "any information" to prospective employers and did not refer them to HR.
