Iconic Magazine’s Top Editor Fired for Taking Massive ‘Gift’

Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images Forbes fired its top editor after discovering that he had accepted a seven-figure payment from a businessman whose company had a lucrative relationship with the magazine. Randall Lane, Forbes’ chief content officer, received roughly $6 million from RJ Shook, the founder of Shook Research, a company that has worked with Forbes on the magazine’s rankings of the top financial advisers for a decade, according to a New York Times report. Forbes, the iconic business…