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John Chambers slams Cisco with $2.3 million in private jet expense

View Larger Image of the Private Jet of Cisco CEO John Chambers Last February, I brought attention to the fact that Cisco's Board of Directors were "teeing up" the payment of millions of dollars to enable an exceptionally extravagant traveling lifestyle for Cisco CEO John Chambers so he could fly at Cisco's expense in his personally owned $50 million dollar private jet (Chambers bought the jet... Read full story

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