A lawsuit filed by a former Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services who claimed his cooperation with investigators examining two transactions that embarrassed Mayor de Blasio led to his firing had the case dismissed by a Federal Judge who concluded his First Amendment free-speech rights had not been violated.
In granting the city's motion for summary judgment and dismissing the wrongful-termination claim by Ricardo Morales, U,S. District Judge John G. Koeltl also ruled that the city produced sufficient evidence that it had been preparing to fire Mr. Morales for poor work performance rather than because he cooperated with Federal investigators.
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