Beginning in 2021, he says in his complaint he began asking Garcia y Griego for permission to personally interview, vet and hire employees who would report to him.She did not respond to any of his requests, Blinman says in his complaint, which speculates she intended to "deprive him [of] the competent employees and necessary tools to enable him to effectively perform his job duties," which would "provide her with the pretext she wanted, and needed" to fire him.Blinman's lawsuit says this issue prompted him to file a whistleblower complaint in 2022, in which he reported to Lucero, the human resources...