Stuart Platt, a lawyer who previously worked for Franklin Township in Gloucester County, N.J., recently filed a lawsuit against the township for allegedly terminating his employment because he is Jewish, NJ.com reported on Tuesday.

The lawsuit, which was filed in state Superior Court earlier in September, alleges that the Gloucester County municipality, located in the New York metropolitan area, terminated him from his contract as township solicitor in 2019 in a 3-2 vote, citing “incompatibility.” He was not given another reason for his termination.

Platt then learned in January from attorney and former member of the township committee, Nancy Kennedy, that, in 2017, Tim Doyle, then a “prominent Republican donor” who now serves as the township’s deputy mayor, was promised “that Jew”

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