Bryan responds after the former director of Treasury is submitted to information process

The governor’s office responded to an information process by the former director of the Treasury of the Finance Department, claiming that he was withdrawn in reprisals for complaints against Commissioner of Finance Kevin McCudy.

Lucy Nuñez, the former director of the Treasury, claims that he was unilaterally eliminated from his position in December and assigned as a financial manager to the Information Technology Office – a relegation. The change of jobs, she says, came a few months after meeting with Kevin Williams Sr., the head of the governor Albert Bryan Jr., to discuss his concerns about Mr. McBRDY’s adequacy for his position.

At the beginning of October, Mrs. Nuñez wrote to the governor Bryan asking to meet. In the letter, she says that her request to reconcile financial records in an effective way was ignored by the Leadership Finance department in favor of a slower method and required more work. She described a lack of support from Commissioner McRDY in preserving staff. “Instead, the responsibility has fallen only, despite my efforts to find alternative measures to meet the accounting criteria mentioned above.” Also, Mrs. Nuñez complained that she was closed from the recruitment efforts and that her leadership ability was undermined, because she asked to meet with the governor Bryan to discuss her concerns.

Instead of the governor, Mrs. Nuñez met with her staff chief, Mr. Williams, on October 24th. After that, “the plaintiff noticed that Kevin Mccordy began to load lower rank employees within the Department of Finance with duties that were usually reserved for the applicant as a treasury director,” according to the process. In addition, he began to make “repeated derogatory comments about the plaintiff’s fitness status to serve as a treasury director, who increased in frequency after the meeting.”

Mr. Mccordy, claims the complaint, also began to make great observations about his subordinate fund, emphasizes that she was born in Puerto Rico and not in the US Virgin Islands. This, according to the trial, has forced it to “demonstrate her dignity for her role as a treasury director” in his eyes. “The applicant found the comments of Kevin McCudy disturbing and scary, given that he moved to St. Croix when he was a small child and lived in St. Croix throughout his life as an adult. ”

The gold of the relationship between Mrs. Nuñez and Mr. Mccordy continued until he received an E -mail on December 5, informing him that he will no longer serve as a treasury director, according to the trial. Going further, he said that a letter from the governor Bryan, Mrs. Nuñez will now be the financial manager at the Information Technology Office. The Email was dated on November 26, however, Mrs. Nuñez said she was not aware of the job changing only a week later.

All the things taken into account – the meeting, the alleged change of behavior of Mr. Mccordy, the fact that Mrs. Nuñez has never applied or expressed interest in her new position, the way in which the work change was communicated – “she claims that the dismissal of the applicant was a direct result of the protected activity of the applicant,” according to the applicant.

Given the key role of Mrs. Nuñez as director of the treasury, she had “a trusted obligation to inform Governor Bryan about the actions within the Finance Department that undermined the objectives of her administration.” She supported Mr. Mccordy’s conduct in her role as a commissioner fulfills the criteria. “The plaintiff … has direct knowledge that Kevin McCudy has often allowed the Finance Department to present inaccurate, incomplete and premature financial reports, to the detriment of interested parties, including financial auditors, the legislator of virgin islands and governor Bryan,” says the process.

Its storage, concludes Mrs. Nuñez, is a violation of the Law on the protection of the territory. It asks the court to reinstall it as a treasury director, to grant salaries back, to restore their benefits and rights of seniority and to grant any additional damages or exemption considered adequate.

A brief statement from the Government issued on Wednesday afterwards “categorically rejects these requests as unfounded and without merit.” A legal response to the civil complaint has not yet been filed.