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to colleagues. “The safety concern that has been created for employees is incomprehe­nsible, and was again validated just this week,” he noted. “(The experts) stated DSW has every element for violence in the workplace.”

Desert Southwest manager Ron Moulton we knew.”

Elam has since filed a whistleblo­wer complaint for retaliatio­n and a wrongful-terminatio­n claim. “I had no choice but to leave,” he said. “No one could have worked in that environmen­t.”

Cloud and others who remain employed at WAPA rather than solve them.

CEO Gabriel, when asked about whistleblo­wer reprisal, said, “I have never seen it.”

A week after Gabriel made that statement, Cloud said he was stripped of his job as security chief, banned from him. “I’ve got no assigned duties,” added Cloud, who says he suffers from posttrauma­tic stress disorder. “I’m sitting in my truck all day in the parking lot right now. It’s 30 degrees out. … This has just been one nightmare after another.”

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