LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A feminine Michigan State Police trooper is alleging in a brand new federal lawsuit that the company’s high command was conscious of what she characterizes as “retaliation” for submitting complaints about sexual harassment.
Former Michigan State Police Trooper Megan Moryc throughout an interview with 6 Information Investigates in 2024. (WLNS)
Trooper Megan Moryc alleges within the lawsuit, filed late Sunday night time in the USA District Courtroom for the Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids, that Col. James F. Grady and Lt. Col. Aimee Brimacombe have firsthand or distinctive details about a litany of investigations and punishments doled out in opposition to Moryc.
“Therefore, based on F/Lt. Bock, Capt. Deasy, and F/Lt. Chaffee’s deposition testimony, emails provided by MSP, and MSP’s own official policies and procedures, Col. Grady and Lt. Col. Brimacombe do have first-hand or unique knowledge related to the claims alleged by Tpr. Moryc in the First Amended Complaint and in this Third Amended Complaint,” the criticism alleges.
The 2 filed sworn affidavits in Eaton County Circuit Courtroom, the place Moryc has been pursuing state civil rights violations in opposition to the company, in March, in a transfer to sit down for depositions in her case. The affidavits claimed that they had no distinctive or firsthand data of Moryc’s case that might require their participation in a deposition. The affidavits had been signed beneath the penalty of perjury.
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MSP declined to touch upon the brand new lawsuit.
“While we will not address pending litigation specifically, I can say that as an employer, the Michigan State Police is committed to fostering a work environment free from all forms of harassment or discrimination, and we do not tolerate, condone or allow harassment or discrimination by our members,” Spokeswoman Shanon Banner wrote in an e-mail to six Information Investigates Monday afternoon.
The lawsuit, nonetheless, cites deposition statements made by First Lt. Nicole Bock, Capt. Thomas Deasy and First Lt. Richard Chaffee, by which every acknowledged beneath oath that each Grady and Brimacombe would pay attention to the investigations and punishments Moryc confronted.
6 Information Investigates reported extensively on Moryc’s trials and tribulations in a multi-part collection titled “The Big Boys’ Club” in July. 6 Information spent months combing via a whole bunch of pages of court docket information and investigation studies. Moryc had been fired twice by the company and twice gained her place again via arbitration.
Her first firing arbitration resolution was appealed to the Michigan Supreme Courtroom.
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She says she was fired over gender discrimination and sexual harassment, however the MSP in court docket filings has argued it was defending the company’s staff from her.
Within the new federal lawsuit, Moryc alleges the entire company’s investigations, together with felony fees stemming from an October 2020 incident of drunken horseplay at a resort close to Traverse Metropolis throughout a union gathering, had been a part of a systemic set of retaliations after she assisted a regulation enforcement agent from one other company – recognized within the federal lawsuit as Jane Doe – file a felony criticism in opposition to an MSP trooper for allegedly secretly recording the duo having consensual intercourse.
That trooper didn’t face felony fees. Moryc, nonetheless, was charged with two counts of assault and battery and two counts of felony sexual conduct within the fourth diploma in January 2021 for the incident in October 2020. She in the end entered a no-contest plea to the 2 counts of assault and battery and was sentenced to serve a 30-day time period within the Grand Traverse County Jail.
The 6 Information Investigates collection is talked about within the federal lawsuit as proof {that a} civilian investigator conducting a background verify for the MSP left playing cards with Moryc’s neighbors asking her to name them. Moryc’s regulation enforcement license lapsed whereas the MSP appealed the arbitration resolution stemming from her July 2021 termination with the company.
The arbitration resolution was upheld by a unanimous Courtroom of Appeals resolution and that call in flip was upheld when the Michigan Supreme Courtroom declined an MSP attraction in 2024. Moryc was ordered to work with the MSP solely to be served with discover of a paid suspension stemming from an allegation of perjury she’d allegedly dedicated in a Montcalm County divorce continuing. A prosecutor had declined to cost Moryc for perjury, however MSP brass present in March that she had dedicated perjury and fired her.
In July, an administrative regulation decide issued a ruling overturning the second termination, explicitly stating he discovered she had not dedicated perjury and chastising the MSP for pursuing her with what he known as animus.
