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Progressively Fishier

RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/22/18

Another allegation of retaliation against a veteran city employee who created static about favoritism shown to a campaign contributor to Mayor de Blasio surfaced last week with the New York Times report of a lawsuit filed by Geneith Turnbull, a former Deputy Commissioner in the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.

She contended, in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, that she was demoted last February, and had her salary cut from $199,000 to $91,169, because she objected to an order to give a DCAS contracting officer a sizable raise that she believed improperly rewarded him for protecting the Mayor during a Federal probe of several questionable transactions.

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