After six years of tumultuous litigation, a federal jury on Tuesday flatly rejected claims of race discrimination brought by the former director of Montgomery County’s Housing Services Department who said he was fired for complaining that he was being singled out for harsh discipline because he is black.
Robert Wright was fired from his $51,908-a-year post in June 1996 after the county received a scathing HUD audit report that said the county’s rehabilitation of owner-occupied and rental units was riddled with problems. The HUD report was based on a 2 1/2-year investigation of the two programs.
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