The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Wingnut on January 30, 2017, 05:06:25 pm
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Call someone "Buckwheat" and it can cost you a million
Luke Rosiak
Investigative Reporter
A lawyer who represents federal employees who have been discriminated against said the payment of $900,000 by a federal agency to an employee whose feelings were hurt by a race-tinged “Little Rascals” reference appears “monstrously excessive” based on past precedent.
He said it could have been designed to prevent a wider, public investigation that would have exposed more serious misconduct at Ginnie Mae, the mortgage agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“There has been some motivation from agencies where a motivation to settle is to prevent the discovery and disclosure of misconduct that is far beyond what happened to a plaintiff, where what’s at issue is only a small part of a much bigger concern. There is a reaction that they will try to pay off the client to stop discovery,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert and Associates who has successfully represented federal employees in major discrimination cases, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I would suspect there’s something out there, there has to be.”
Ginnie Mae Chief Operating Officer Mary Kinney once called a black employee “Buckwheat,” a minstrel-like character from the 1930s films. A subordinate later authorized the nearly $1 million taxpayer lump sum payment last year to secure a promise from the offended woman that she wouldn’t file a public lawsuit.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/23/1-million-racism-payout-for-little-rascals-comment-deemed-monstrously-excessive/#ixzz4XGWZFpAn
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Ginnie Mae Chief Operating Officer Mary Kinney once called a black employee “Buckwheat,” a minstrel-like character from the 1930s films. A subordinate later authorized the nearly $1 million taxpayer lump sum payment last year to secure a promise from the offended woman that she wouldn’t file a public lawsuit.
What do they care. It's not their money to worry about.
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O-TAY then... :whistle:
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Ginnie Mae Chief Operating Officer Mary Kinney once called a black employee “Buckwheat,” a minstrel-like character from the 1930s films. A subordinate later authorized the nearly $1 million taxpayer lump sum payment last year to secure a promise from the offended woman that she wouldn’t file a public lawsuit.
What do they care. It's not their money to worry about.
Sounds like a Blackmail pay off to me?
No pun intended.