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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

(12) RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Certain directors, officers, and stockholders of the Company are also directors and officers of its main consolidated subsidiaries, MFC, MCI, FSVC, and the Bank, as well as other subsidiaries. Officer salaries are set by the Board of Directors of the Company.

Jeffrey Rudnick, the son of one of the Company’s directors, was an officer of LAX Group, LLC, or LAX, one of the Company’s equity investments that sold its assets on December 16, 2020. Mr. Rudnick receives a salary from LAX of $178,000 per year, which was reduced to $133,000 in the 2020 second quarter, and certain equity from LAX consisting of 10% ownership in LAX Class B stock, vesting at 3.34% per year; 5% of any new equity raised from outside investors at a valuation of $1,500,000 or higher; and 10% of LAX’s profits as a year-end bonus. In addition, Mr. Rudnick provided consulting services to the Company directly for a monthly retainer of $4,200. Effective March 1, 2021, Mr. Rudnick serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President at a salary of $195,000 per year and is no longer providing consulting services to the Company.

The Company’s subsidiary RPAC, has an agreement with minority shareholder Richard Petty, in which it makes an annual payment of $700,000 per year for services provided to the entity. In addition, RPAC has a note payable to a trust controlled by Mr. Petty of $7,442,000, that earns interest at an annual rate of 2% through March 2022, none of which has been paid to date.

In the 2019 second quarter, RPAC entered into a sponsorship agreement with Victory Junction, a 501(c)(3) public charity of which Richard Petty is a board member, for $7,000,000 of sponsorship payments to RPAC during the 2019 race car season, of which $5,600,000 was subsequently earned and received in 2019, and the balance which was written off as it was not expected to be received.

The Company had assigned its servicing rights to the Bank portfolio to MSC, a wholly-owned entity that had been unconsolidated under Investment Company Accounting. The costs of servicing are allocated to MSC by the Company, and the servicing fee income is billed and collected from the Bank by MSC. As a result, $1,290,000 of servicing fee income was earned by MSC for the three months ended March 31, 2018.

For the three months ended March 31, 2018, other income received from the Bank that was not eliminated under Investment Company Accounting was $256,000.