Ex-ProPetro CEO Fined Over Undisclosed Perks
Texas oilfield products and services firm ProPetro and previous CEO Dale Redman have settled costs that they understated his executive benefits by failing to disclose ProPetro had reimbursed him for extra than $400,000 in private and travel fees.
In accordance to the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee, ProPetro did not include things like the expenses, like Redman’s use of his particular Learjet for visits that ended up not immediately similar to the overall performance of his CEO responsibilities, in its proxy statements for fiscal 2017 and 2018.
As a final result, the statements recognized only $10,800 in perks for 2017, instead of $153,370, and $19,248 for 2018, as an alternative of $304,863, representing a overall understatement of $428,125, the SEC stated in an administrative get.
Redman also allegedly failed to disclose to ProPetro personnel that he experienced pledged all of his inventory in the organization as collateral for a private genuine estate loan, resulting in inaccurate disclosures of his stock ownership in public filings.
The SEC’s administrative order did not mention the company’s CFO. Following an audit committee investigation of a individual subject, which did not consequence in any fiscal restatements, in the slide of 2019 ProPetro named a new govt chair as well as a new interim CFO, general counsel, and chief accounting officer.
To settle the allegations all over executive perks, ProPetro and Redman agreed to stop-and-desist from even further violations, and Redman agreed to shell out a $195,046 penalty.
“The federal securities laws are crystal clear: issuers should properly disclose and history govt payment and inventory possession. ProPetro failed in both equally respects,” David Peavler, director of the SEC’s Fort Truly worth regional office, mentioned in a information release.
Redman served as CEO of ProPetro from August 2006 till his resignation in March 2020. He principally utilised his Learjet for business enterprise vacation but according to the SEC, ProPetro reimbursed him $42,519 in 2017 and $117,279 for private trips.
The SEC said Redman omitted his individual trips on the Learjet in the directors & officers questionnaires he submitted to ProPetro.
Also, he allegedly failed to disclose that he and members of his spouse and children had utilised ProPetro credit score cards to demand $127,698 of personalized charges and ProPetro allegedly failed to effectively disclose $47,591 in further perks for Redman that have been approved and paid out for directly by the corporation.
The incorrect disclosures of benefits arrived to gentle, the SEC claimed, after ProPetro’s board initiated an internal investigation of a distinct matter. Redman reimbursed the corporation for $345,636 in August 2019.
