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The New York Jets made a reconvention request against their former finance vice-president, Elaine Chen, after Chen continued the organization alleging reprisals for having cooperated in an investigation into sexual harassment on the president of the Hymie Elhai team.
The team’s reconvention requests include defamation, civilian conspiracy, criminal interference and breach of contract.
Chen said in her initial trial that she and her husband, the former vice-president of ticket sales, Larry Fitzpatrick, were dismissed as reprisals after the complaints were filed against Elhai.
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The jets allegedly alleged that Chen and Fitzpatrick engaged in an “illegal conspiracy” to “wrongly accuse” Elhai of sexual harassment, and argued that she and Fitzpatrick were dismissed “rightly” for a flagrant, exploitable and totally reprehensible “misconduct.
“This trial is nothing more than a desperate extension of the conspiracy and an attempt by Shakedown Nyj, which no longer pays the salaries of Chen or Fitzpatrick, and to avoid the inevitable and simple consequences of their fault”, according to the jets, as shown by the judicial documents obtained by PK Press Club Digital.
The documents also included screenshots of alleged SMS and emails exchanged by Chen and Fitzpatrick which show alleged communication in the alleged conspiracy.
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One of the attached screenshots shows a text message from a participant in the survey on sexual harassment, whose identity is expurgated, in Fitzpatrick.
“You and Elaine should not tell anyone, and I mean anyone, whom I sent that. He can continue me for slander[ugh] He would be 100%wrong, does not need headache, “said the alleged text message.
Another screenshot shows an alleged text message from another person whose identity has been spotted to Fitzpatrick who said: “I cannot wait to pull this missile.”
Other screenshots show alleged text messages exchanged with Fitzpatrick which read “Cya Scumbag” and “Good I hope it buries it” as well as instructions to delete certain text messages and not use the WiFi Team network.
A close -up of a New York Jets logo before an NFL football match against the New England Patriots at the Metlife Stadium on November 9, 2020 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Images Perry Knotts / Getty)
A screenshot of an alleged text message from Chen to Fitzpatrick read: “You cannot tell the girls, they must be just as shocked.”
PK Press Club Digital contacted Chen’s lawyer for an answer.
Jets are now looking for monetary damages from Chen, including prosecution costs and lawyers’ fees.
