“My reputation has been ruined, my employability is almost zero. I always thought I would end my career on a high note; that I would end my career working for government as long as I could, and that avenue was shut down for me,” said Ricardo Morales Jan. 13 at a City Council hearing on protections for whistleblowers in city government.
The veteran civil servant, who won a city Ethics in Government Award during his tenure at the Housing Authority, has filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit claiming that he was ousted from his role as a Deputy Commissioner in the Department of Citywide Administrative Services in February 2017 for cooperating with prosecutors investigating preferential treatment given by the de Blasio administration to the Mayor’s campaign donors, including restaurateur Harendra Singh.
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