Jeff Alan Sues KOIN for Discrimination, Hiring of Kacey Montoya

Jeff Alan, the former News Director at Portland's KOIN, has filed a lawsuit against the station after being forced to hire Kacey Montoya.

Alan filed the lawsuit against KOIN, NVT Networks and its CEO Jason Elkin. Alan also claimed that 30-year veteran Ed Whelan was fired due to racial discrimination.

According to the lawsuit, Alan claims that he was fired due to age discrimination, out of retaliation for opposing Montoya's hiring, and out of retaliation for acting as a whistleblower on Whelan's firing.

During a July 2007 meeting, Elkin told Alan that Whelan be fired as a condition of NVT buying the station from Montecito Broadcast Group. Elkin then asked Alan, then 54, whether he was too old for his job, and made one other disparaging remark about Alan's age.

In December 2007, NVT GM Chris Sehring told Alan to check out a resume tape from prospective news anchor Kacey Montoya, according to the lawsuit. Sehring told Alan that they "would probably be forced to hire her."

Alan refused her hiring because he felt she was unqualified and because he found erotic pictures of Montoya on the Internet under two alias, Kacey Aliece and Kacey Bytheway.

Montoya claimed that she was never a porn star, but took several photos as a model prior to her career as a news anchor. "I'm not a porn star. I was never a porn star," she said. "I never posed in any pictures with the intent that they would be put on an erotica site. This is not the kind of modeling that I did, and I would like it if you made that perfectly clear."

Alan also disagreed with the salary Montoya received, which was much higher than he suggested. Prior to KOIN, Montoya worked at KPSP 2, a CBS affiliate in Palm Springs, CA.

After Alan vehemently disagreed with hiring with NVT Network over the hiring of Montoya, he was fired in January.

Alan is suing for his position as news director back at his agreed salary of $150,000 a year plus $2.5 million for economic damages and pain and suffering.

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