Cooper Automotive Executive Says Whistleblowing Caused Firing

Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. is accused in a federal lawsuit in Michigan of withdrawing a promised promotion and then firing its vice president of corporate strategy, mergers, and acquisitions because she blew the whistle on efforts to overstate projected revenues from a new advanced material science project.

Gabrielle Corrent says CEO Jeffrey Edwards pushed for a $199 million projected revenue increase above the $1 million being forecast for the project during a 2020 budget meeting. She wasn’t alone in questioning Edwards’s actions as Cooper Standard’s chief transformation officer and the project’s business development director also had issues with the CEO’s demand, ...