TORONTO - The former head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has settled her lawsuit against the government for almost $750,000.
Kelly McDougald brought her lawsuit in September -- a month after she was fired with cause as the Liberals released thousands of pages of what were deemed "unacceptable" expense claims filed by lottery executives.
Her $8.4-million wrongful dismissal suit claimed she was fired because she refused to terminate other executives to create public scapegoats.
The dismissal came as a surprise, especially after the government paid the former CEO of eHealth Ontario more than $315,000 when she left her job after that agency handed out $16 million in untendered contracts to consultants.
That scandal rocked the Liberals, and McDougald claimed her own firing was an attempt to control a second scandal.
As part of the agreement, the lottery corporation itself will pay out the settlement and McDougald will withdraw her legal claim against the OLG and the province.
