In lawsuit, former University of Louisville Foundation exec says he was board's 'fall guy'

[TexasTowelie]

The University of Louisville Foundation's former chief financial officer claims in a new lawsuit that he was made the “fall guy” for “a wide variety of political, private and public interests” when he was fired in July.

In a suit filed Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court, Jason Tomlinson alleges the foundation board breached his contract and violated his rights by terminating him from the $260,000-a-year job without a hearing.

“He is destroyed,” his lawyer, Don Cox, said in an interview. “He can’t get a job.”

Keith Sherman, the foundation’s executive director, said the foundation “stands by its decision regarding Mr. Tomlinson and will not discuss personnel matters further.”

Tomlinson and the foundation’s assistant secretary, Kathleen Smith, were fired a month after a scathing audit found that the foundation depleted millions of dollars in endowment money through unwise investments and excessive spending. The university’s outside counsel has estimated that as much as $100 million was lost.

Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2017/11/09/former-uofl-foundation-executive-wrongful-termination-lawsuit/848040001/