L.A. District Attorney Has Grudge Against Union, Prosecutor Says
L.A. District Attorney Has Grudge Against Union, Prosecutor Says
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Los Angeles County prosecutor accused District Attorney Steve Cooley and his senior officials of "a pattern of harassment and selective discrimination" - including spying on him and putting a forged document in his personnel file - because he belongs to a union, the Association of Deputy Attorneys.
Deputy District Attorney James Bozajian claims Cooley and Los Angeles County discriminated against him because of their "already admitted anti-union policies."
Also named as defendants are prosecutors Curtis Hazell, John Spillane, John Zajec, Jaquelyn Lacey, Janet Moore and Sharon Matsumoto.
"Defendants have admitted in sworn testimony that they have and continued to retaliate against plaintiff and all such prosecutors who are active members and participants of ADDA," according to the federal complaint. "Defendants' discriminatory practices including transferring plaintiff, (a senior union member) to juvenile courts, consistently transfer, harass and cajole him to attempt to force him out of both the ADDA Union and the District Attorneys' Office.
"Defendants use District Attorney investigators, (ie. law enforcement officers working directly for defendants), to harass, intimidate and spy on the plaintiff, and others associated in a board capacity for ADDA.
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