A purported whistleblower who was said to have "alarming" evidence of "serious breaches and irregularities" at the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation now says she never made the claims attributed to her in court last year.

Stacey McKinney, a former director of finance at N.B. Liquor, says in an affidavit filed in Court of King's Bench last week that she has no information relevant to an ongoing lawsuit over the awarding of a contract for a liquor agency store in Hartland.

She says "all of the representations" made last year by her former lawyers in the case "were made without my instructions."

The New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board says in a Nov. 2 letter in the court file that McKinney recently withdrew her complaint to the board about her 2020 firing.

Last year, McKinney's lawyers said she had been fired for raising concerns about "financial, ethical and illegal irregularities" at the corporation and was seeking protection as a whistleblower under New Brunswick's Public Interest Disclosure Act.

At a hearing last November, Erica Brown, a lawyer for Hartland businessman Peter Cook, asked the court to put his lawsuit against N.B. Liquor on hold so she could gather "fresh evidence" from McKinney that "directly contradicts" the corporation's evidence.

Now McKinney says she never had anything to offer the case.

In her affidavit filed Nov. 1 in Court of King's Bench, McKinney says did not make "any allegation regarding the agency store program" in her complaint under the...

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