A Wayne, NJ resident, who blew the whistle against the township last year, has filed another lawsuit against a lawyer who represented the township in the case last year. The defamation lawsuit alleges that lawyer Eric L. Harrison, bad- mouthed him while talking about the settlement to the media. Jeffrey DelVecchio is suing both Mount Olive, his former employers, and Harrison for falsely stating that his job as building inspector was terminated because of his rude and insubordinate behaviour.
DelVecchio has stated in his lawsuit that these defamatory statements violated the settlement agreement reached by both parties last year and also caused him mental anguish, stress, humiliation, pain and suffering. For this he is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
In October 2007, DelVecchio won a $130,000 lawsuit against Mount Olive under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act also known as the whistle- blower law alleging that he had been removed from his job in retaliation for reports he filed in 2005 about supposed violations of construction codes in the building of a Best Western hotel in Budd Lake.
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