The lawyer for a businessman fighting N.B. Liquor in court is questioning whether the Crown corporation signed a settlement with a fired employee that would stop her from co-operating with the lawsuit as a whistleblower.
Erica Brown is demanding that the corporation's former director of finance Stacey McKinney turn over all documents related to any settlement between her and N.B. Liquor.
She says in a Nov. 11 letter filed in court that she fears McKinney and her lawyer "may have made a deal" that included her ending her co-operation with the legal case.
Brown is representing Peter Cook, a Hartland businessman seeking a judicial review of N.B. Liquor's decision to move a lucrative agency store contract to another retailer in the village.
A year ago, McKinney, who was fired by N.B. Liquor in 2020, appeared willing to testify for Cook about the Crown corporation's management practices.
According to a sworn affidavit by Cook and Brown's letter, McKinney approached them offering information about what she described as politically motivated decisions driven by N.B. Liquor board chair John Correia, a supporter of Premier Blaine Higgs.
She planned at the time to claim whistleblower status and ask the Labour and Employment Board to rule on her firing, according to her lawyer at the time.
But McKinney abruptly withdrew her complaint against N.B. Liquor this fall, according to a Nov. 2 letter from the labour board filed in court.
In an affidavit filed in Court of King's Bench on...
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