Whitey Ford
04-04-2024, 10:42 PM
Oh noz.
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A federal judge in New York refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by a fired office manager against the law firm she says allowed a senior attorney to make racist comments and play videos of lynchings in his office as other employees walked past.
According to Fernandez, Ira Greene, a former firm partner who transitioned to an Of Counsel role after the firm was involved in a hostile takeover, is a Civil War buff who participated in reenactments as a Confederate soldier, played “Dixie” and other Confederate songs in his office, and talked about flying the Confederate flag. Fernandez said that Green would refer to his relatives as “good old boys,” and even told her during her first week at the firm that those relatives “to this day, [sit] on their porch in Virginia with their shotguns just like the good old days.”
Fernandez said in her complaint that she saw Greene not only visit white supremacist websites, but that on more than five occasions, she saw Greene watching disturbing videos in his office, once even calling her over and encouraging her to “take a look.”
Fernandez described the videos:
The videos showed “a man hanging from a tree with his testicles and his penis cut off and shoved in his mouth, from a noose and they set him on fire;” “a woman running through the woods, pregnant, by a group of white men who gang raped her, tied her to a tree, cut the baby from her and bounced it around like a football;” or a “little boy, running . . . who [was] grabbed and assaulted by a group of white men.”
Fernandez said that when she spoke up about the videos, partner Jeffrey Saltiel asked, “Was it anything good?” and warned, “Just wait until he starts playing the slave march!” Fernandez said that on another occasion, that same partner commented about another Black employee, “You can take the girl out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the girl.”
https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/law-firm-partner-watched-lynching-videos-bragged-about-playing-a-confederate-in-civil-war-reenactments-in-front-of-black-office-manager-lawsuit/
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A federal judge in New York refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by a fired office manager against the law firm she says allowed a senior attorney to make racist comments and play videos of lynchings in his office as other employees walked past.
According to Fernandez, Ira Greene, a former firm partner who transitioned to an Of Counsel role after the firm was involved in a hostile takeover, is a Civil War buff who participated in reenactments as a Confederate soldier, played “Dixie” and other Confederate songs in his office, and talked about flying the Confederate flag. Fernandez said that Green would refer to his relatives as “good old boys,” and even told her during her first week at the firm that those relatives “to this day, [sit] on their porch in Virginia with their shotguns just like the good old days.”
Fernandez said in her complaint that she saw Greene not only visit white supremacist websites, but that on more than five occasions, she saw Greene watching disturbing videos in his office, once even calling her over and encouraging her to “take a look.”
Fernandez described the videos:
The videos showed “a man hanging from a tree with his testicles and his penis cut off and shoved in his mouth, from a noose and they set him on fire;” “a woman running through the woods, pregnant, by a group of white men who gang raped her, tied her to a tree, cut the baby from her and bounced it around like a football;” or a “little boy, running . . . who [was] grabbed and assaulted by a group of white men.”
Fernandez said that when she spoke up about the videos, partner Jeffrey Saltiel asked, “Was it anything good?” and warned, “Just wait until he starts playing the slave march!” Fernandez said that on another occasion, that same partner commented about another Black employee, “You can take the girl out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the girl.”
https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/law-firm-partner-watched-lynching-videos-bragged-about-playing-a-confederate-in-civil-war-reenactments-in-front-of-black-office-manager-lawsuit/