Five former Suffolk County Girl Scouts employees filed a $35 million whistleblower lawsuit against the Girl Scouts of Suffolk County, claiming retaliation, wrongful termination and human rights violations by the organization's board of directors and the former chief executive.
The five former employees, Russell Thompson, Sarah Moffatt, Kyle Grant, Thomas Flanagan and Christine Flanagan, filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip against the Girl Scouts and nine employees, including former CEO Pamela Mastrota.
The employees allege Mastrota targeted and cut by 40% the salary of Kyle Grant, the only African American director at the Girl Scouts, according to their Hempstead attorney, Fred Brewington, and that their salaries were reduced for defending Grant before they were all fired June 22.
The former employees gathered at Brewington's Hempstead office Wednesday morning to announce the lawsuit.
"All is not cookies and green at the Girl Scouts of Suffolk County," Brewington said. "The way they were abused, the Girl Scouts should be ashamed of themselves. They tout themselves as an organization that teaches character and treating people fairly with equity and justice. There was nothing just or fair the way these individuals were treated when they were terminated summarily."
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