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Accrued salary, accrued retirement and incentive fee - related party
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Accrued salary, accrued retirement and incentive fee - related party  
Accrued salary, accrued retirement and incentive fee - related party

Note 16 - Accrued salary, accrued retirement and incentive fee - related party

 

The Company had an outstanding liability to Chet Billingsley, its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), as follows:

 

March 31,

2017

December 31,

2016

 

Accrued salaries and benefits

$

759,701

$

759,701

Accrued incentive fee and bonus

 

366,578

 

190,581

Accrued retirement and other benefits

457,079

457,079

Offset by shareholder advance

(293,493)

(368,983)

$

1,289,865

$

1,038,378

 

The Company agreed to advance the CEO $944,000 against the accrued liabilities due him, in January 2014, to exercise additional warrants into shares to be used as collateral for a potential loan to the Company. The warrant exercise was a cashless transaction made solely for the benefit of the Company in its efforts to obtain financing.

 

After the warrants were exercised, the CEO put 100% of his shares owned, 5,000,486 shares, in an escrow which was to guarantee the potential loan. The loan was mutually rescinded on June 12, 2014, and the shares remained in escrow until March 28, 2016, at which time the CEO’s shares were removed from escrow and, in August 2016, 135,000 shares were placed under a 10b5-1 Plan under third party control to preclude any directed share sales by a company officer when non-public information is known. The CEO’s remaining shares are held in certificate form and are not held in any brokerage account or in any other manner for intended resale.

 

As provided by Board of Director resolution in 1998, the CEO will be paid an incentive fee and a bonus which are payable in cash upon merger, resignation or termination or in installments at the CEO’s option. The incentive fee is 1% of the increase in market capitalization based on the bid price of the Company’s stock beyond the book value at confirmation of the bankruptcy, which was approximately $260,000. The bonus is 0.5% of the increase in market capitalization for each $1.00 increase in stock price up to a maximum of $8 per share (4%) based on the bid price of the stock beyond the book value at confirmation of the bankruptcy. The accrued incentive fee increased by $175,997 and $0 for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.