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In a lawsuit filed in opposition to the Current York Giants, former video director Dave Maltese alleges he used to be fired for filing a complaint whereby he talked about director of soccer data and innovation Ty Siam assaulted assistant video director Steven Venditti, according to ESPN’s Jordan Raanan.
The alleged assault occurred in September, and Maltese talked about within the lawsuit that when he reported it, the team’s senior vp and standard counsel William J. Heller used to be “threatening and retaliatory” and cited a “efficiency pickle” for the postulate for Matese’s termination.
“We’re attentive to the civil filing by a former employee and are ready to aggressively shield the group and its staff in opposition to the meritless claims,” the Giants talked about in a assertion. “Previous that, we discontinue not intend to build further dispute on this matter.”
Per Raanan, Maltese alleges within the suit that Siam had displayed threatening conduct in the direction of him within the previous, portion of a increased sample of “violence within the administrative middle by Giants administration.”
Maltese also talked about he used to be the sufferer of a physical assault from former video director John Mancuso and he used to be “ragefully tackled” by former assistant coach Dave DeGuglielmo in 2014.
Maltese talked about he used to be urged Siam would be given a different role throughout the group but he wasn’t.
The suit is seeking damages for “wages misplaced, fringe advantages, retirement and pension plans” alongside with “be troubled, struggling, stress, humiliation, mental danger, emotional injure and deepest physical injure and physical illness, scientific charges as correctly as injure to his reputation and lack of earnings.”
