After a sudden ousting at the B.C. legislature saw the clerk and sergeant at arms removed from the building pending an investigation, court documents show the man who conducted the seven-month internal investigation also had his own employment records looked at by a former employer.

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More than 10 years ago, Alan Mullen was fired from his job as a security shift manager for Great Canadian Casinos Inc. In September 2007, Mullen filed a claim in the Supreme Court in Vancouver against the company for firing him without due cause. In the companyB次元官网网址檚 statement of defence, Great Canadian Casinos Inc said there was a cause: Mullen had tried to file a claim for 542 hours of overtime to the tune of $11,465.38. When the company asked Mullen for proof of the overtime, he B次元官网网址淚nstead, and without providing any documentation or supporting information to the Defendant, the Plaintiff [Mullen] initiated an action in the Provincial Court of British Columbia to recover the alleged overtime hours claimed.B次元官网网址�

Mullen had also, in 2006, been suspended without pay for four days after being intoxicated at work.

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The statement of defence goes on to say Mullen B次元官网网址渉ad poisoned his relationship with the Defendant [Great Canadian Casinos Inc.]. It was no longer feasible for him to remain in the DefendantB次元官网网址檚 employ and he was dismissed for cause as a result.B次元官网网址�

On Dec. 24, 2007, Mullen applied to have the claims dismissed without a hearing. By Dec. 31, the courts ordered the claims dismissed, and neither party had to pay any costs.

Mullen went on to work at the Kent Institute as a correctional manager. ItB次元官网网址檚 where he met Darryl Plecas, who was the prison judge. Mullen would go on to help PlecasB次元官网网址� campaign for the BC Liberals in both 2013 and 2017.

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Alan Mullen was hired by speaker Darryl Plecas at the beginning of 2018 to be a special adviser and began the investigation into Craig James and Gary Lenz in January. When James and Lenz were escorted out of the legislature on Nov. 20, Plecas then suggested that Mullen be appointed to the sergeant at arms interim position B次元官网网址� a position open after the investigation by Mullen himself. That suggestion was deemed inappropriate by house leaders, and the position remains open.

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