Trump campaign chief and Breitbart News chairman Stephen Bannon fired a woman on maternity leave who also suffered from multiple sclerosis. She sued in 2005, claiming her pregnancy and MS led to her unjust firing.
Daniel Halper first reported the story in the New York Post:
“Julia Panely-Pacetti, a new mother who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was terminated by defendants from her position as head of public relations and corporate marketing because of her sex and her disability,” states the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court in September 2005. The action was filed against American Vantage Companies, Panely-Pacetti’s then-employer, where she reported directly to Stephen Bannon, Trump’s top adviser and the chief of Breitbart News. Panely-Pacetti claimed she was fired “while she was on a protected Family and Medical Leave Act maternity leave, even though she had been forced to continue performing her job responsibilities from home throughout her maternity leave,” the suit states.
The suit was later settled out of court, according to the report.
Read more at the Post.
