The former chief operating officer of New York’s Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. waited too long to file a whistleblower suit alleging he was retaliated against for raising concerns about alleged improprieties by the OTB board of directors and president, a federal court in Buffalo ruled.
Plaintiff Michael Nolan’s First Amendment retaliation claim is untimely because the statute of limitations began running with the first alleged act of retaliation, Judge William M. Skretny of the US District Court for the Western District of New York ruled Wednesday.
The first alleged retaliatory act was when Richard Bianchi, chairman of the OTB ...
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