A $638 million figure in a draft reference letter now sits at the heart of a lawsuit
A former Meta manager says the company fired him after he refused to sign a reference letter as drafted, claiming it overstated a team member's work.
The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on August 17, 2026. It names Meta Platforms, Inc. and the man's former direct manager, who is sued individually. The claims include retaliation under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and retaliation under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
According to the filing, he worked at Meta for approximately four and a half years and held the title Manager, Product Design, Monetization GEN-AI Group, leading design work on monetization and generative-AI projects. The complaint says he had no documented performance deficiency that explained or justified his termination.
The dispute began with a letter. In or about April or May 2024, the filing says, Meta and its outside immigration counsel coordinated an I-140 EB-2 National Interest Waiver petition concerning an employee who worked within his product-design organization. That petition route asks the government to waive the ordinary job-offer and labor-certification requirements where the work is found to have national importance and where the waiver would benefit the United States. The complaint says the outside firm prepared or substantially prepared a proposed managerial reference letter addressed to USCIS and presented it to him...
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