Plaintiff filed against LSA alleging he was discriminated against because he is African American. LSA moved for summary judgment stating Plaintiff was suspended with pay and was not constructively discharged. The district court dismissed the case, and Eleventh Circuit affirmed.
aid was only resumed after the white house, after president trump must have been aware from conversations with defense, from other discussions that this was about to come out. the whistle-blower and other public revelations of the aid suspension were about to surface. and then suddenly, i don t want anything, i don t want a quid pro quo. so that s striking testimony. i have been talking to ukrainians. i was with distinguished former official last night who is not part of the cesspool corruption in ukraine and i asked him what he made of the ukraine scandals. it s a scandal. and he said this is a good thing for ukraine. americans now are talking about how important it is for us to be free and independent, how important our fight against
18th, an omb representative relayed that the white house chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about ukraine and ukraine security assistance, unquote. and that a hold had been ordered by the president. no explanation was provided. all of the agencies responsible for ukraine policy supported security assistance and advocates for lifting of the hold. the only dissenting voice was the office of management and budget which was following the orders of president trump and still no good explanation of the hold was provided. while the aid suspension had not been made public word was getting out. catherine croft special adviser for ukraine negotiations worked with ambassador volker and received two separate calls in july or august from officials at the ukraine embassy who quote, approached me quietly and in confidence to ask me about an omb hold on ukraine security
on july 18, a representative relayed the white house chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about ukraine and that a hold had been ordered by the president. no explanation was provided. all of the agencies responsible for ukraine policy supported security assistance and advocated for lifting of the hold. the only dissenting voice was the office of management and budget which was following the orders of president trump, and still no good explanation of the hold was provided. while the aid suspension had not been made public, word was getting out. catherine croft, special advisor for ukraine negotiations who worked closely with ambassador volker and who testified of this committee received two separate calls in july or august of officials of the ukrainian embassy who approached me quietly and in confidence to ask me about an omb hold on ukraine