A third whistleblower lawsuit alleges that a former Mooresville employee faced two options when he found evidence of Mayor Chris Carney inside town hall late one night undressed and visibly aroused: conceal evidence or resign.
Former town IT director Chris Lee insisted that the town preserve the “politically explosive” video evidence showing Carney and a communications consultant just after midnight on October 10, 2024, according to a federal lawsuit Lee filed Wednesday.
When Lee “resisted improper directives” from town leadership and “refused to delete, alter, misclassify, conceal (or) corrupt” the footage and other electronic evidence, like access logs, he was “forced out of his employment through a termination-threatened, resignation-pressured separation,” according to court documents in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Lee’s lawsuit names Carney, the town of Mooresville, Police Chief Ron Campurciani, Town Manager Tracey Jerome and Chief Financial Officer Chris Quinn.
A Mooresville spokesperson did not respond to an email requesting comment before publication. Carney last month told The Charlotte Observer the claims were bogus. He said he came to the office after drinks from a bar blocks away didn’t mix well with his medication.
He was cleaning vomit off himself by himself, he said, and the consultant was multiple offices away.
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