The Barstool Sports founder continued to direct social media shots at Penn Entertainment on Thursday.
that showed Penn Entertainment stock down Thursday morning and wrote, “There he is. That’s Mintzy.”
Just after noon on Thursday the NASDAQ showed Penn Entertainment stock as “dropping fast,” listing it as down 12.82 percent on the day, going for $26.25 per share. That was down a little more than two percent from the time of Portnoy’s tweet.A representative for Penn Entertainment acknowledged a PennLive request for comment regarding Portnoy’s suggestion that the firing of Ben Mintz was causing the company’s stock to lose value, but did not immediately offer a statement.
Portnoy announced Mintz’s firing in an “Emergency Press Conference” video that he posted to Twitter Wednesday. In that video, he explained thathe used the slur while reading song lyrics on his “Wake Up Mintzy” show on Monday. Portnoy went on to say that “a lot of people” hate him and Barstool, and “look for any lever, any excuse, anything to cause problems and pull the licenses.”
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