A 61-year-old white woman, who says she was wrongfully fired from the Baltimore prosecutors’ office after 25 years on the job, has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit alleging age, race and gender discrimination in the 2010 termination.
Antoinette E. Swiec, of Baltimore, is
seeking $400,000 in compensation from the Baltimore state’s attorney’s
office on each of two counts, claiming she was fired because the
predominantly young, African American division she worked for wanted her
out.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District
Court Monday, and was to be served on Baltimore State’s Attorney Gregg
Bernstein, though the firing occurred under his predecessor, Patricia C.
Jessamy. Bernstein took office in 2011.
Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the
state’s attorneys’ office, declined to comment on the pending litigation
“as a matter of policy.”
Swiec says she was the office manager of
the Firearms Investigation and Violence Enforcement Unit in 2010,
supervising a four-person clerical staff that was “exclusively African
American and predominantly young,” with all but one person in their 20s.
She reported to FIVE division chief Matthew Fraling III, whom she
describes as a black male in his 40s.
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