A former coroner’s office investigator was awarded $8.4 million Friday in her whistleblower suit against Los Angeles County in which she said she was forced into early retirement in 2017 in retaliation for raising suspicions about the death of an 8-year-old disabled boy. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for less than a day before finding in favor of Denise Bertone, who also is a registered nurse. She was hired in 2002 and for years investigated the deaths of infants and children, according to her lawsuit filed in November 2018. Lawyers for the county denied that Bertone was subjected to…
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Inglewood’s longtime city treasurer is suing the city, the mayor and members of the City Council, alleging her salary was cut, and that she was locked out of City Hall after questioning the handling of the city’s finances. Wanda M. Brown’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges state Labor Code violations, intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation. She seeks unspecified damages in the suit filed Wednesday. The 78-year-old Brown was first elected in 1987 as Inglewood’s city treasurer and has maintained her post ever since, serving under three different mayors, including current Mayor James T.…