Margaret Keenan claims she was fired from her position as county budget director after raising concerns about conditions in the jail, among other things.
CLEVELAND — *EDITOR'S NOTE: The above video is from a previous story about the jail.
Cuyahoga County Council on Tuesday approved a $550,000 settlement for a lawsuit filed by Margaret Keenan, one of the whistleblowers in the county jail scandal.
Keenan, who served as Director of Cuyahoga's Office of Budget and Management from 2015-19, claims she was fired after raising repeated concerns about the jails conditions. Eight inmates died in the year 2018 alone, and subsequent federal and state investigations subsequently confirmed many of the problems Keenan had spoken about.
The final vote to approve the settlement was 10-0. In a subsequent statement, Michael J. Gallagher took aim at the county employers named in the lawsuit, and expressed dissatisfaction with the fact county taxpayers would be floating the bill for their alleged actions.
"I am deeply disturbed by the alleged behavior of several of the individuals named defendants in this litigation," Gallagher said, while not mentioning any specific names such as County Executive Armond Budish and his chief of staff Bill Mason. "I remain and continue to remain very unhappy with what's going on in this county regarding settlements regarding employees."
Keenan originally filed the lawsuit in June of 2020, roughly six months after her termination. According to the complaint, she...
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