Christian coalition settles race lawsuit, but FBI probe pending. (People & Events).The Christian Coalition's troubles just won't stop. Officials with the once-powerful Religious Right organization have agreed to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit out of court, but now there's talk of an FBI investigation of fraud by the group. A federal court sealed terms of the lawsuit settlement, but The Washington Times reported Jan. 3 that "sources involved in the negotiations" said the African-American employees who brought the suit will receive $325,000 and in return agree not to talk about the case publicly. Twelve black employees sued the Coalition last February, charging a pattern of racial discrimination at the organization's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The workers said they were told to use the back door, excluded from weekly prayer meetings, denied health care and overtime pay and made to eat lunch in a segregated, substandard substandard, adj below an acceptable level of performance. facility. Roberta Combs, president of the Coalition, said the case was groundless and called it "nothing more than a cynical effort to embarrass and extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of the Coalition." The Coalition's troubles may not be completely over, however. The Times reported that several other employees have gone to the FBI with information that the Coalition may have been involved in financial irregularities and possible wire fraud in connection with a gala it threw to mark the inaugural of President George W. Bush. "I have been contacted by the FBI, and I am cooperating with the investigation and will continue to do so," Trent Barton Trent Barton is one of the very small number of significant independent bus operators in the UK. It was formed as the result of merging Derbyshire's Trent Buses with Nottinghamshire's Barton. , an ex-employee, told the newspaper. The Coalition also faces a legal battle in Chesapeake, Va., where it was headquartered for 10 years before moving to Washington. The Virginian-Pilot reported Dec. 29 that an Ohio company Ohio Company, organization formed (1747) to extend settlements of Virginia westward. The members were mostly Virginia planters interested in land speculation and the fur trade. called Developers Diversified Realty Corp. is suing the group in state court, charging that the Coalition breached its lease by failing to pay rent and other fees for its old office space. The firm seeks $76,546.02 in damages and court costs court costs n. fees for expenses that the courts pass on to attorneys, who then pass them on to their clients or, in some kinds of cases, to the losing party. . In December TV preacher Pat Robertson Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22 1930)[1] is a televangelist from the United States.[2] He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), , founder of the Christian Coalition Christian Coalition, organization founded to advance the agenda of political and social conservatives, mostly comprised of evangelical Protestant Republicans, and to preserve what it deems traditional American values. , announced he was severing his ties to the organization. Robertson said he wants to spend the next few years focusing on his ministry. |
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