NY Gov. David Paterson
New York State has secretly settled an embarrassing federal reverse-discrimination lawsuit, which charged Governor David Patterson of firing a White photographer so he could replace him with a black one.
Patterson made the racist firing back in 2003 when he still the State minority leader.
The lawsuit was brought forth by 56-year old Joseph Maioriello, who had been working for the New York Senate for 26 years. Maioriello charged that Patterson fired him so he could hire African-American El-Wise Noisette and wanted US $1.5 million in damages.
El Wise Noisette
Maioriello claimed he was told by John McPadden, then Paterson’s chief of staff, that he was being fired because a number of minority senators wanted to replace him with “a minority photographer, a black photographer.”
He said he was also told, “You got to remember who Sen. Paterson is. Sen. Paterson is black.”
The case was scheduled for trial in federal court Monday in Syracuse, The New York Post reports. Paterson, the state’s first African-American governor, was scheduled to be a key witness.
Paterson, who is legally blind, claimed in a sworn deposition that he didn’t see well enough to have fired Maioriello because of his race.
A spokesman for Paterson later said the comment was “a quip, a joke.”
While neither Paterson nor the state admitted that Maioriello was a victim of racial discrimination, the size of the settlement means “that the state wouldn’t have made out very well if it had gone to trial,” said a source close to the lawsuit.
“If nothing wrong happened, why is the state paying out this kind of money?” the source asked.
Paterson and McPadden denied the race-bias claim.
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