Ending a six-year legal battle, the Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to a former top contracting official who charged that she was demoted after she objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract granted to a Halliburton subsidiary to repair oil fields in Iraq.
That's according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development official who filed a formal complaint saying she was demoted because she refused to OK Carson's extravagant redecoration of his office.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Guardian reported that another HUD official, Helen Foster, alleged she was demoted after she expressed concerns over expensive plans to redecorate Carson's office.
When she's demoted to corporal, she accepts the news with dignity.
When she returned to work she was demoted to a job involving primarily manual labour.
Former HUD official Helen Foster filed a complaint with department's special counsel late last year, in which she claimed she had been demoted because she raised concerns about the purchases.
Helen Hunt is really a co-lead in The Sessions (with John Hawkes), playing a professional sex surrogate who falls in love with her paralysed patient, but they know she has a stronger chance if she's demoted to the role of supporting actress.
According to Ramirez-Damon, after she complained to management about wrongdoing, she was demoted.
As a result, the commission's document states, she was demoted to an entry-level position, where she remains.
Although she worked briefly as a customer service manager, she was demoted to cashier, the court documents say.
