Boardroom Coup Dressed as Retirement: CEO Pushed Out After Domino Disaster In 2023, Douglas Cifu lit the match that burned his career — he picked a fight with InvestorTurf and never recovered. Instead of running Virtu Financial, he wasted his days spewing vile rants at retail investors, a mouth so toxic it got him suspended by the NHL. Accused of manipulating a cancer treatment stock and stealing $400 million from investors, Cifu became a walking scandal. Then came the big announcement: “retirement.” But we don’t buy it for a second — we suspect the board ousted him under the disguise of retiring, forcing him out rather than him leaving willingly. And just like that, the once loudmouthed CEO who lived on X/Twitter has gone silent, vanishing from the very platform where his downfall began.