Former Atlantic City Solicitor; Kim Baldwin will finally get that $1.2 mil she was awarded by a jury back in 2008. Baldwin will get $256,567 in lost wages, $75,000 for emotional distress, and $850,000 in punitive damages. Baldwin says she was improperly fired in 2007 by Council President William “Speedy” Marsh. Speedy was also serving as mayor during a portion of that time.
Note: Marsh is one of the sponsors of that creepy $3 million loan to ZeMurray, a company very few council members knew about.
Baldwin says she was fired because she tried to claw back the $850,000 settlement that Marsh and then Mayor Langford should not have received. Even the NJ State Inspector General told Atlantic City not to pay out that money due to conflicts of interest. The city (shocker) decided to pay out anyway.
Eventually the NJ state Supreme Court stepped in and threw out the $850,000 settlement and forced Speedy & Langford to give back the cash and accept a repayment schedule.
According to The Press of Atlantic City: a recent legal decision also allows Baldwin to move forward with claims against Councilman Tim Mancuso.
Baldwin says Atlantic City Councilman Mancuso retaliated against her. She wouldn’t award legal contracts to his friends.
Baldwin also lost brownie points from Mancuso because she was doing her job: advising him in writing and in public, that his conduct was in violation of the law.