He was hired to be an investigator — but was allegedly treated like a pack mule.
An administrator for the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board was forced to perform manual labor at his office job, and eventually quit to escape “grotesque bigotry and hostility” from his supervisors, he said in a lawsuit.
Nigerian-born Ademola Bello was the only desk worker at the CCRB’s Division of Financial and Strategic Management ever asked by his bosses “to haul furniture, office supplies, boxes of paper and filing cabinets,” he claimed in court papers.
Winnie Chen, the CCRB’s director of budget and operations, and Jeanine Marie, the agency’s deputy executive director, treated Bello, 52, like “property” and “chattel labor,” which left him “emotionally battered and psychologically depleted,” the Nigerian native said in the July 16 legal filing…