Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat
We haven't heard the last of ex-state Reps. Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser.
Keith Allard and Ben Graham, former aides to the disgraced pair, file a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the House of Representatives, Chad Livengood writes in The Detroit News.
Livengood reports that the suit alleges that the former aides' pleas that Courser and Gamrat were engaged in misconduct were ignored by House Speaker Kevin Cotter’s office, and nothing was done to protect them from Courser and Gamrat’s “retaliation” firing in July after they refused to help cover-up the lawmakers’ affair, violations of House rules and mixing of campaign activities on taxpayer time.
The News goes on to report:
Allard and Ben Graham’s lawsuit also claims someone on House staff leaked copies of their “out-of-context” emails to the media to smear them and unlawfully released their Social Security numbers in the 833-page House report Republicans used to expel Gamrat from office and force Courser to resign in September.
Both lawmakers were ousted for using taxpayer resources to cover up their extra-marital affair. Gamrat was expelled. Courser quit just before he was about to be ousted by the state House. Both failed to reclaim their seats in a special election in November.