ALBANY — A former top-ranking official with the Firefighters Association of the State of New York was awarded $369,000 by a judge who ruled last week that the organization had breached its contract when it terminated him without cause three years ago after he complained about alleged financial improprieties.
Acting state Supreme Court Justice Denise A. Hartman, who ordered the association to pay the judgement, also declined to dismiss a retaliatory claim filed by the former official, David Quinn, who began working for the statewide firefighters' organization in 1991 and was appointed chief administrative officer in 2003. Quinn had once been chief of the South Schodack Fire Department in Rensselaer County.
He had alleged top officials in the organization were using credit cards without prior authorization, as required, and that grant funds were being doled out to a firefighters museum in Columbia County without vouchers, which violated the non-profit association's regulations.
A month after Quinn was fired in February 2019, the organization gave him a letter outlining a proposed separation agreement that included a severance package but with stipulations that included a confidentiality clause and his immediate resignation as treasurer of the association's Museum of Firefighting in Hudson. After Quinn declined to sign the release that included a confidentiality clause — which would have prohibited him from publicly disclosing the complaints he had made — the organization...
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