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A former employee with the State Attorney's Office in the Nassau County office who says four years after she was wrongfully fired in 2009, she finally got closure Wednesday in the form of a $175,000 settlement.
"I felt like I was making a complaint to the proper people that I was supposed to make my complaint to," says Julie Lyncker.
Lyncker says she filed a complaint with State Attorney Angela Corey about her new boss, Wesley White, who she says had been asking her to call then-sheriff and family friend Tommy Seagraves and ask for things.
"He asked me to call him when he was on vacation because [White] felt like the Sheriff would answer my call and no one else's."
Lyncker says White embarrassed her in front of other employees on several occasions when she said she didn't feel comfortable doing what White asked. She says when she filed the complaint, she became the focus of the investigation instead and was eventually fired for what the State Attorney's Office said was having conversations about sex with employees.
"None of those other people were disciplined. The only difference between Julie Lyncker and those other employees is that Julie Lyncker complained about Wesley White," says Lyncker's attorney Joseph DeBelder.
Lyncker says she was fired in retaliation for filing her complaint, but in a statement the State Attorney's Office denies that.
"I never thought that I would lose my job."
She says she's just ready to move on with her life.
The full statement from the State Attorney's Office reads: "The SAO maintains that Ms. Lyncker's allegations of retaliatory discharge are not valid. The SAO contested the claims, would continue to contest the claims, and in good faith believes there is a valid foundation for the defense of such claims. But as is common in civil cases, Ms. Lyncker and the SAO have determined that their respective interests would be best served by completely resolving and settling this case."
Wesley White also denied any allegations of wrongdoing and says he opposes any form of settlement in the case.
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