Chuck E Cheese parent company CEC Entertainment this week announced CEO David McKillips will be stepping down effective February 13th and replaced with CFO Scott Drake, Restaurant Business reports on a leadership change coming after McKillips’s name appeared in the Epstein files.
All of that is accurate. McKillips is really stepping down and his name really is in the Epstein files, appearing once on a list of speakers at some 2018 conference that some guy named Aziza Alahmadi copied and pasted in an email to Dirty Jeff. The facts at hand here demonstrate that any schmuck on the internet with a platform can impugn the name of an exec who may or may not otherwise be an asshole degenerate simply because it’s easy to imply causality to his departure by omission.
McKillips was with Six Flags at the time. Why he’s actually leaving Chuck E Cheese is not clear but that it’s obviously a planned and orderly succession should tell you the terms are at least amicable enough. Maybe he’s taking over at Dave and Buster’s, who cares. The actual problem here is that McKillips can be impugned by that technically accurate headline while the name of whoever Jeff emailed to say “where are you? are you ok, I loved the torture video,” in 2009 is completely opaque.