{"id":59811,"date":"2015-05-14T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59811"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:06:03","slug":"veterans-trading-company-fires-exec-for-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59811","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Trading Company fires exec for military service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=34620998\">a link to the story<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vtcusa.com\/\">Veterans Trading Company<\/a>, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, HUBZone-certified Small Business, that fired it&#8217;s President, Paul Costello, a Navy Reservist and a plot, because he went on active duty with his unit and refused to rehire him when he finished his committment. VTC initially filed a law suit against Costello to recover the wages and expenses they had compensated him. Now, the DOJ is taking up Costello&#8217;s cause under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The government is pursuing damages equaling Costello&#8217;s lost wages and forfeited ownership and distribution shares in the company since June 2013, as well as compensation for legal fees.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Trading Co. filed a lawsuit against Costello in April, alleging he was compensated improperly in his role as president of the company while on military leave. Federal lawyers are seeking a dismissal of that lawsuit and claim Costello took &#8220;personal leave&#8221; during his military service to conduct company meetings. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/veterans-trading-company-llc-vs-paul-m-costello-litigation-2015-05-13\">Market Watch<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On April 30, 2015, Veterans Trading Company, LLC (VTC) filed a lawsuit in Utah State under Civil No. 150902921 against a former officer of VTC for the return of monies paid to him during a time when he later claimed he was on active duty for the United States military. That suit claims fraudulent non-disclosure, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with his employment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell sends us a link to the story of the Veterans Trading Company, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, &hellip; <a title=\"Veterans Trading Company fires exec for military service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59811\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veterans Trading Company fires exec for military service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reserve-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}