A pending civil rights lawsuit against state Attorney General Tom Corbett who is the GOP’s nominee for governor is the simmering subject of discussions in the blogosphere with rumors about a pending autumn surprise that would derail his candidacy.
The case was filed Aug. 11, 2008 in United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on behalf of Thomas D. Kimmett and Sherry E. Bellaman by attorney Donald A. Bailey and amended two months later. The amended complaint names Corbett and nine others in the state attorney general’s office as defendants.
Kimmett worked as a senior deputy attorney general according to the complaint and Ms. Bellaman was his assistant.
Kimmett alleges that Attorney General’s office unlawfully gave breaks to tax delinquents and unlawfully paid commissions to collection agencies. He also alleges that they ruined his chance of promotion after he complained about it to the Department of Revenue by running “him in a circle between the two Agencies.”
In the amended complaint, Kimmett says that “immediately after Kimmett filed the original suit the defendant’s (sic) Roman, Keiser, and others in the Attorney General’s office began a retaliatory program of harassment and ostracism” and acted “to alienate him from his assistants including the plaintiff Sherry E. Bellaman”
According to the court, the last action taken on the matter was a phone conference in April and no trial has been scheduled.
A phone call was placed to Bailey’s office to provide him a chance to elaborate.
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