Status Changed to Retired
By Tony Brockmeyer
The First Capitol News has learned that a $104 million lawsuit filed against the City of St. Charles and the City Council has been settled.
Former St. Charles Police Sergeant Tommy Mayer had filed the lawsuit in Federal Court after he was fired. Mayer was fired shortly after a traffic stop in which he forced the City Administrator to the ground by gun point. Mayor York, who was not named in the law suit, wrote two letters on behalf of Tommy Mayer, saying she thought he was a wonderful individual and he had been mistreated by the City Council. She also wrote any City should be proud to have an officer like Mayer who she often referred to as “Missouri’s Top Cop.”
The First Capitol News has learned that the City agreed to change the record of Mayer’s employment from fired to retired. However they refused to give Mayer any of the benefits of receiving his badge and gun as other retired officers are provided for by ordinance. the City agreed to pay Mayer $57,500, an amount that would be far less than the legal fees and depositions that would have been incurred. The City agreed to these conditions because the attorneys advised it would cost the CIty more than that amount to try the case in court. The attorneys for the City were extremely they would have won if the matter was put before a jury.
This also settles the recent lawsuit Mayer filed in St. Charles County Circuit Court.
