Conferences to determine the destiny of suspended Hashish Management Fee Chair Shannon O’Brien are scheduled to stretch into June after an hours-long closed-door session Friday concluded with no obvious decision and each side declining to remark publicly.
Goldberg eliminated O’Brien from her submit final fall claiming “several serious allegations,” together with alleged racially incentive feedback, led to the transfer. However O’Brien has pushed again, denying the accusations and accusing Goldberg of “relying on anonymous witnesses.”
As she stepped right into a convention room inside her workplace on Friday, Goldberg didn’t say if she had any targets for the listening to.
“I’m not allowed to discuss the proceedings,” she instructed the Herald. As she left later within the afternoon, Goldberg declined to touch upon the necessity to maintain a fourth session.
An lawyer for O’Brien, Max Stern, stated discussions have been extending right into a fourth day “to get all the witnesses in.” He declined to remark additional.
The following assembly is scheduled for June 17, each Stern and aides to Goldberg stated.
Hashish Management Commissioner Kimberly Roy additionally confirmed as much as the listening to Friday, coming into a convention room the place the 2 events have been assembly round 4:30 p.m., greater than 4 hours after discussions had begun.
Friday marked the third listening to since proceedings kicked off firstly of this month.
The second assembly ended with O’Brien’s attorneys accusing Goldberg of “relying on anonymous witnesses” to construct a case. Each nameless witnesses and on-the-record sources are getting used within the proceedings.
Two reviews authored by outdoors investigators, which haven’t been made totally public, define the allegations towards O’Brien and are more likely to function the idea for Goldberg’s resolution to take away or preserve O’Brien on the Hashish Management Fee.
An impartial mediator, Thomas Maffei of the legislation agency Sherin and Lodgen, has overseen the conferences.
