By Mark Hicks
The Detroit News
DETROIT — A former Detroit emergency medical technician is the latest to file a whistle-blower’s lawsuit against the city, alleging he was retaliated against for information he provided to Michigan State Police investigating a long-rumored party at the Manoogian Mansion.
Douglas Bayer, 40, of Monroe said he was harassed, threatened and eventually dismissed.
Reached late Wednesday, he confirmed he was the one who filed the lawsuit but refused to elaborate to The Detroit News.
His attorney, Norman Yatooma, could not be reached.
Bayer’s lawsuit follows the allegations of several others claiming they were retaliated against for reporting or investigating matters related to the alleged party or alleged wrongdoing by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his police bodyguards.
He told Michigan State Police beginning in 2003 that following the party in the fall of 2002 he witnessed a disturbance at Detroit Receiving Hospital at which he was told “the mayor’s wife had beat down some b----.”
A prominent feature of the Manoogian Mansion party rumor has been the allegation that Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita, arrived at the party and assaulted an exotic dancer.
Bayer said he arrived at the hospital on a call and “observed a large crowd in the reception area who were causing a commotion.”
He said the crowd of about 20-25 people included blacks and whites, males and females, some well-dressed, and “two individuals had Secret Service-type earpieces.”
On the way out of the hospital, Bayer asked a group of EMT workers outside what the commotion was about and was told it related to an assault on a woman by the mayor’s wife, the police report stated.
When Bayer drove the ambulance to the hospital, he almost ran into a large black SUV, possibly a Navigator, he told state police investigators.
Bayer said he had not come forward before with the information because he believed it was hearsay and Attorney General Mike Cox had said that he found there was no party at the mansion shortly after the investigation began.
Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, his former chief of staff, are accused of lying under oath when they testified last year at a trial over a lawsuit brought by three Detroit Police officers.
In a lawsuit filed last month in Wayne County Circuit Court seeking $25,000, Officer Tony Davis cited 13 potentially embarrassing incidents he claims were reasons he was retaliated against.