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Former N.J. health official says state still won’t say why he was terminated
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Former Assistant New Jersey Health Commissioner Christopher Neuwirth is suing the state over his dismissal in May.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media
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A former high-ranking state Health Department official who sued the state after he was let go last year at the height of the pandemic said in a new court filing that the state won’t reveal why he was fired.
Christopher Neuwirth who served as assistant commissioner for the Division of Public Health filed a whistleblower lawsuit after he was terminated on May 28 amid reports that he had been fired for allegedly failing to disclose a side job. He claimed in his lawsuit that the real reason he was fired was because he pushed back on a request to test relatives of Gov. Phil Murphy’s top aide for coronavirus.
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