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Novato pays $600k in quiet settlement

March 24, 2022 by Marin 2 Comments

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The City of Novato settled a 2020 lawsuit filed by John McCarthy, an ex-lieutenant in the Police Department, who claimed the department retaliated against him after he blew the whistle on an alleged sexual affair between the department’s ranking officer and a subordinate. 

The City did not disclose the settlement to the public. The Independent Journal obtained the information through the California Public Records Act and reported that a $600,000 settlement was reached. The City said it paid the amount to make the suit go away and admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement. 

Filed Under: Local News, Novato

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  1. Nancy says

    March 24, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    Of course everyone knows the city attorney who probably has a hand in this is not a city employee. He doesn’t even have an office in Marin. His office is in Grass Valley. So what does he care about $ doled out?

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  2. John says

    March 25, 2022 at 11:53 am

    I should have sued them about 25 years ago.Unfortunately i was in escrow at the time i was harassed by a police officer about moving my car..This officer kept at me as i was on my balcony a floor up.Then filed to the DA i was being combative.They let him go after they threw me under the bus on illegitimate charges of threats and physical harm which any forward now I’m a story up and I had no reason all I told him was my car was in the garage small town small mind nothing ever changes with the Nevada please trust me that there since 1968

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