Opinion ID: 1429814
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Fraudulent Equal Employment Opportunity Report (EEO-1)

Text: In fall 2000, an employee in the Guild's Human Resources department, Valerie Quetel (Quetel), suspected Shick was preparing a fraudulent disclosure to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEO-1 report). In Quetel's view, the EEO-1 report overstated the number of racial minorities the Guild employed in high-level positions. Quetel told Metoyer the EEO-1 report was fraudulent, and provided Metoyer with a copy of the report. Metoyer compared the EEO-1 report's listing of high-level employees with an organizational chart, and concluded that the Guild was, in fact, overstating the number of racial minorities in high-level positions. At a department head meeting in late 2000 attended by McGuire and Chassman, Metoyer confronted Shick about the EEO-1 report. During the meeting, Chassman sided with Shick and criticized Metoyer as being out of line. Quetel's declaration states that after the meeting she heard Shick repeatedly say, [t]hat bitch. I'm going to get that bitch. After the meeting, Metoyer met privately with Chassman and told him that she planned to disclose the fraudulent EEO-1 report to the Guild's plenary council, when it next met in April 2001. As a result of the budgets cuts in her department in 2000, Metoyer lacked the money to hire an employee to help her administer IACF grants. She therefore entered into written agreements with Loyola Marymount University (LMU), whereby LMU agreed to hold grant funds in escrow for Metoyer. LMU agreed to pay out escrowed grant funds to researchers, project coordinators, and vendors, upon Metoyer's order.