State pays $250K in whistleblower settlement
The state is paying $250,000 as part of a settlement in the whistleblower lawsuit that was filed against the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in 2013.
The Lewiston Sun Journal reported that as part of the settlement, the state will pay $142,500 to Sharon Leahy-Lind, former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control’s Local Public Health division, to drop her federal lawsuit, which accused supervisors of ordering her to shred public documents and retaliating against her when she declined.
In addition, Katie Woodbury, an office manager at the CDC, will get $22,500 and will be transferred to a comparable position at another department. The two plaintiffs’ attorney, Cynthia Dill, was paid $85,000 in attorney’s fees.
The CDC supervisors and DHHS have admitted no wrongdoing.
Source: Lewiston Sun Journal
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