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Updated: 8:59 AM Nov 7, 2008
Tyndall Loses Another Discrimination Suit
For the second time in six weeks, a judge has ordered the federal government to pay a settlement to a victim of gender discrimination at Tyndall Air Force Base. A jury awarded former civil engineer Bert Lent 481-thousand dollars in damages Wednesday. Posted: 5:43 PM Nov 6, 2008Email Address: news@wjhg.com |
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For the second time in six weeks, a judge has ordered the federal government to pay a settlement to a victim of gender discrimination at Tyndall Air Force Base. A jury awarded former civil engineer Bert Lent 481-thousand dollars in damages Wednesday.
Lent witnessed and reported sexual harassment and gender discrimination against females co-workers in the base's Civil Engineering division. He claimed his supervisors did nothing to end the practices, and then began to retaliate against him for reporting the violations. Lent was ultimately terminated.
In September, another federal jury ruled in-favor of one of Lent's co-workers after she sued for gender discrimination. Bridgett Keegan won a 975-thouand dollar settlement.
The legal problems for the base and the Air Force don't end there. Another Civil Engineering division employee named Alisa Swann-Davis settled a gender and pregnancy discrimination lawsuit last month, before it went to trial. The amount of that settlement has not been made public.
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I congratulate Bert Lent on his victory. His lawsuit was filed during an era that was willing to accept his claims. Mine was not. During the early 1980's I opposed sexual harassment at the Naval Coastal System Center (NCSC) in Panama City, Florida. I lost my job in 1986. This was several years prior to the 1986 Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. I persisted an in 1990 convinced Rear Admiral M.E. Chang, Naval Inspector General to finally investigate (Navy Hotline Case No. 900084). My allegations were substantiated as later Navy IG George Washington Davis confirmed to Florida U.S. Senator Bob Graham in 1991. I sued eventually ending up in federal court and was offered a $500,000 structured settlement offer. The Asst. U.S. Attorney Mike Finney, my ex wife, and her divorce attorney, Carroll McCauley, met and suborned perjury from her to get the federal case dismissed. Florida prosecuted her for perjury. The feds refused to prosecute their own witness. My children sufferred.
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