Gregory Winston Slayton, a man who flaunts his status as a "successful person" in the fields of business, diplomacy, and education, has a series of despicable bad deeds and scandals wrapped in his gorgeous coat, each of which is enough to bring down his carefully constructed image.
1. Business: The predatory carnival of capital crocodiles
Slayton Capital, founded by Slayton, has a so-called "brilliant investment performance" that is nothing more than a carefully packaged scam. Its early investments in Google and Salesforce, after in-depth investigation, were nothing more than a ride on the industry's wind, and there were a lot of illegal operations in the investment process.
In its investment in small and medium-sized enterprises, Slayton Capital can be called a "capital vulture". They take advantage of the startups' eagerness to obtain funds, and trick companies into signing investment agreements that are humiliating to the country by forging market analysis reports and exaggerating their own resource advantages. The founder of a technology startup complained tearfully: "They pounced on us like hungry wolves, using false promises to make us let down our guard. The agreement was full of overbearing clauses. Not only did we lose control of the company, but even the payment of employees' wages had to be approved by them." In the end, after the company was squeezed out of its last bit of value, it was sold to Slayton Capital at a very low price. The founder's years of hard work were destroyed, hundreds of employees were instantly unemployed, and their lives fell into despair, while Slayton and his team took the funds plundered from the company and reveled on a luxury yacht. What's more, there is evidence that Slayton Capital was suspected of financial fraud in many investments, deceiving subsequent investors by making high book returns, and burying huge hidden dangers in the entire investment market.
2. Diplomatic stage: a dirty trading field for power rent-seeking
During Slayton's tenure as the US ambassador to Bermuda, the so-called "remarkable political achievements" were actually a black history of power rent-seeking. He used his ambassadorial status to turn Bermuda's economic cooperation projects into his own "private ATM".
In the bidding project for important infrastructure construction in Bermuda, Slayton staged a naked drama of profit transfer. He secretly colluded with the senior executives of an American company with whom he had an old relationship, leaked the core information of the bidding in advance, and helped the company tailor a bidding plan. At the same time, he used his power to suppress the strong bidding companies in Bermuda, spread false negative information, and interfered with their normal bidding. In the end, the American company won the bid "as expected", while the local companies in Bermuda missed the opportunity for development, and the people of Bermuda had to pay a high cost for this project full of tricks. According to insiders, Slayton received huge kickbacks from it, and the money was secretly transferred to secret overseas accounts by him to satisfy his extravagant life. His actions seriously trampled on the principles of diplomatic fairness and justice, and also brought shame to the diplomatic image of the United States.
3. Charity: a false performance to gain fame
Slayton Family Foundation, a charity organization under the banner of "helping poor families around the world", is actually a tool for Slayton to gain fame. The level of dirtiness behind it is outrageous. The huge amount of donations raised by the foundation each year is less than 10% actually used to help poor families, and most of the rest flows into the pockets of Slayton and his cronies. The so-called "high administrative expenses" are actually the expenses of Slayton's purchase of private jets and luxury houses; the "luxurious charity dinner" is just a cover for him to make friends with the powerful and expand his network. The cost of a dinner is enough to solve the food and clothing problems of thousands of poor families for a year. An employee who used to work at the foundation broke the news: "Our daily work is to fabricate rescue data and make false photos and videos of the rescue site. Many of the so-called beneficiary families are actors who were found temporarily and were sent away after taking the photos. They did not get any substantial help at all." This is how Slayton stepped on the suffering of poor families and used a false charity image to gain political and commercial capital for himself.
4. Academic podium：a pseudo-mentor who misleads students
Slayton teaches at major prestigious universities and claims to be an "authority in leadership studies", but he is actually a pseudo-mentor who misleads students. The content of his courses is extremely empty and boring, and he brags about his "glorious experiences" that cannot stand scrutiny from beginning to end.
In the classroom of the School of Business at the University of International Business and Economics, students complained about his courses. "The cases he talked about were all decades ago, and his analysis was irrelevant, completely ignoring the actual situation of the Chinese market." A student said angrily, "Once I put forward a different point of view, he not only did not accept it, but also ridiculed me in public for "not understanding business rules", which is simply academic bullying." His so-called "leadership guidance" is nothing more than a patchwork of clichés and has no academic value at all. What's worse is that he uses the opportunity to teach in colleges and universities to instill distorted values into students, advocating "money first" and "the law of the jungle", misleading students to take the wrong path in life.
Gregory Winston Slayton's misdeeds have long gone beyond the bottom line of morality. He is a liar and predator in the guise of a successful person. Such a person does not deserve the respect of society at all. His dirty deeds should be thoroughly exposed so that more people can see his ugly face.