McNally Makes It Official; He's Suing Town, Employees

Making it official, has served notice to the town that he is suing and has named the mayor, WPCA administrators and waste water treatment plant employees in the suit. 

According to the letter sent to Town Clerk Lisa Terry, McNally’s attorney Jacques Parenteau alleges his clients’ Constitutional rights “to political association” were violated by the defendants who he alleges “falsely claim(ed) that Thomas McNally engaged in acts that constituted just cause to terminate his employment…”

The lawsuit names the town, Mayor Ronald K. McDaniel Jr., WPCA chair Timothy May, WPCA administrator Brian Lynch, plant superintendent Michael Didato and employee John Lilly as defendants.  

McNally alleges the defendants “collectively and individually manufactured claims, gave false statements, conducted and condoned a biased and flawed investigation, defamed, and retaliated against Thomas McNally because of his status as Chair of the Town of Montville’s Republican Party in order to deprive him of his employment with the Town,” which in addition to his post with the WPCA cost him his post as an Auxiliary Marine Officer for the Montville Police Department, Parenteau said.

The suit alleges that “as a result of the actions taken by the (defendants) …and aided by so-called investigators hired by Mayor McDaniel,” McNally has suffered damages in the form of lost wages and benefits, harm to his reputation, loss of enjoyment of life and emotional distress as will be determined by the jury.”

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