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Knicks fouled over firing executive
Posted by Fired Fred on September 18, 2007 5:09 PM
They're putting the screws to the guy who keeps giving Isiah Thomas contract extensions. James Dolan runs the big cable company that owns the Knicks. He's getting unfriendly questions about firing Anucha Brown Sanders, their ex-marketing executive who's accused Isiah of sexual harassment.
Because Jimmy D is a rich white guy, he got to testify by videotape instead of chilling out with the masses while waiting his turn in the witness stand. He fired Angry Anucha for interfering with the Knicks' probe into her accusations against Isiah...
Dolan said another company executive, Rusty McCormack, told him in a helicopter ride to his office at the midtown Manhattan arena that Browne Sanders was impeding the investigation by asking employees in her department to write memos documenting their recollections of abusive behavior directed at her.That should make her attorneys pretty gleeful. "You fired Anucha without knowing how far along your investigation was into her accusations?"
Browne Sanders was "essentially attempting to coerce her direct reports'' and "influence the process,'' Dolan said.
Dolan said she was fired within 24 hours.
"I don't know where the investigation was at that point,'' he said in his testimony.
Mmmmm, that's the sweet smell of lots of money being offered in a settlement I think I'm smelling. Maybe that will keep Isiah from taking on another crappy player with a massive contract this season.