Since 'SandBox Nanny' has talked with Lee over all this, she'll direct her comment to the media coverage.
Again, she chooses Chad Abraham over on the Aspen Daily for his detail and thoroughness covering the topic and its background.
Good wishes to Lee Mulcahy. He already knows he has our support.
"...In an email to SkiCo employees in early February 2011, Kaplan said Mulcahy used the low-wage argument to cover up inappropriate behavior as an instructor.
In February 2010, Mulcahy, a 15-year instructor who was once invited into SkiCo’s elite Diamond Pros group of teachers, took a class of young girls out of bounds and used abusive language toward them, Kaplan wrote in a letter to the editor.
Both Aspen papers published Kaplan’s missive, which also said that in April 2010, a SkiCo guest “notified us that Lee charged a private lesson to his credit card without his authorization.”
Mulcahy’s lawsuit says the statements about both incidents are false and defamatory. SkiCo has emails from the client that authorize both the lesson and the credit-card charge, according to the court filing.
“The CEO of the SkiCo published the false statements with both knowledge and reckless disregard of their falsity,” wrote Mulcahy, who is representing himself in the lawsuit. “Moreover, the statements are considered defamatory on their face without further evidence to put them into context and make them defamatory.”
Jeff Hanle, SkiCo spokesman, said Thursday that Kaplan had not been served with the lawsuit and “therefore he has nothing to say.”
Mulcahy sustained a “great financial loss in the year 2011, in [an] amount exceeding $15,000, and plaintiff alleges that such losses are due to the slanderous activities of the defendant,” the lawsuit says.
Mulcahy, who did not return messages Thursday, writes that his reputation has been damaged and that Kaplan’s statements have deprived him of his livelihood. The plaintiff was “subjected to great humiliation and mental anguish and subjected to other damages from ‘the company that owns the company town,’” the lawsuit says.
Kaplan’s statements and the manner in which Mulcahy was fired “are stigmatizing and false, [and] they significantly foreclose plaintiff’s possibility of future employment in the field as well as the ‘company town’ in which he was employed by defendant,” the lawsuit says...." (Read more? Click title)
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