Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney and the town’s police chief refuted claims Wednesday in two federal lawsuits about Carney’s behavior during two late-night encounters with police.
“Enough is enough,” Carney said in an interview with The Charlotte Observer and Observer news partner WSOC. “We need to come out and set the record straight.”
Carney said claims are false in the lawsuits filed against him, the town and other Mooresville officials by a former IT worker and ex-assistant police chief Frank Falzone.
“It’s been awful, to be honest with you,” Carney said. “When you come into office trying to do the right thing” only to face “unfounded accusations.”
“I just can’t sit back” and not contest the bogus claims in the lawsuits, Carney said. “My family deserves better than this, Mooresville deserve better than this.”
Falzone filed a whistleblower lawsuit on Monday alleging he was forced to retire for raising concerns about the late-night incidents involving Carney.
The lawsuit said Falzone was threatened with the loss of his pension if he didn’t retire, “depriving him of his career, reputation, and livelihood.”
The 37-page lawsuit stems “from a deliberate and coordinated campaign by senior officials of the Town of Mooresville to silence, discredit and remove” Falzone for refusing “to participate in or remain silent about serious governmental misconduct,” according to the complaint.
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