![]() ![]() People are so scared to speak out, and nobody ever does anything. But I feel like this is about fair treatment of employees. “It was difficult at first for me to step forward. Koch thinks she can belittle people and treat them like slaves, working them 17 hours a day,” Racine told The News while discussing the allegations in her complaint. “My client is an incredibly brave woman to come forward with these discrimination and retaliation claims,” Rosenberg said in a statement to The News. “It is even more disappointing to know that money is the ultimate motivation,” it said. “It is disappointing to see these mean-spirited accusations about the Kochs’ personal lives from someone that Julia trusted with the security and well-being of her children,” the statement said. “She and her late husband dedicated their lives’ work to philanthropic causes - giving over $1 billion to the arts and medical science,” the statement said. The spokesperson described Julia as a “devoted wife and mother.” ![]() “We will not dignify these baseless stories with specific responses,” Fernandez said. Racine’s employment discrimination complaint, these stories about the Koch’s personal lives, which have nothing to do about the legitimacy of any personal employment claims, are nothing more than a gratuitous attempt to smear Julia and David Koch’s reputation,” Fernandez said. ![]() to the press in hopes of extorting funds from Matador’s client, Julia Koch,” the statement from Julia’s spokesperson Christin Fernandez said. “Felicia Racine has achieved her goal of bringing an employment claim against her employer Matador Security Company, Inc. “As a result of the discriminatory/retaliatory termination, Felicia suffered and continues to suffer damages,” the complaint states. Racine claims the male bodyguards employed by the Koch family were not asked to do such remedial, personal tasks and that she was fired April 1 on the pretense that her husband’s transfer to California as an active-duty member of the Air Force would hinder her ability to do her job. The bodyguard said Julia requested that she make Mary’s bed, get the Harvard University freshman to leave late-night parties in Boston and stop the teen from hitching a short ride on a friend’s private plane. Racine claims she also was tricked into delivering a fake ID to the Koch’s underage son, David Jr., in West Palm Beach and repeatedly was asked to “mother” Koch daughter Mary. anymore and did not want his life prolonged further,” the filing prepared by Racine’s lawyer, David H. “Felicia believed that Julia had refused David Sr.’s feeding tube because Julia could not deal with David Sr. “(Julia) won’t allow him to have a feeding tube, it’s not right, he’s gonna die, we are uncomfortable with it because he is no longer eating and is basically starving to death,” the nurses allegedly told Racine, according to the complaint. ![]() in the months before his August 23 death. The ex-bodyguard further claims she heard from nurses that Julia didn’t want them to use a feeding tube to treat David Sr. “I was always under the impression that they had so much money, if you don’t just bite your tongue and go along with things, they’ll get rid of you,” she said.Īccording to Racine’s filing, a senior staffer at the security firm employed by the Koch family told Racine that Julia also commissioned a replica of a multimillion-dollar Amedeo Modigliani painting owned by the family so she could move the original to the new townhouse without her husband noticing. “The deception and lies for sure made me fearful of losing my job if I did speak up,” she said. In an interview with The News, Racine said the scope of the alleged treachery she was drawn into left her in fear of her boss. ![]()
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