Kraft Heinz Worker Gets Trial in Miami Vice Costume Fallout Suit

Kraft Heinz Co. must face trial on whether it fired an employee for comments he made to the media while campaigning for local office addressing a Halloween costume he wore a few years earlier depicting a Black lead character from the Miami Vice TV show.

There’s evidence the associate general counsel who investigated the costume incident in 2022 repeatedly asked the employee about his media statements, the US District Court for the District of Connecticut said. The former associate sales director spoke to news outlets in 2021 while running for his local school board about allegations that a costume he ...