Pac-12 legal affairs: Fired executives file complaint, claim Larry Scott knew about Comcast overpayments

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Pac-12 legal affairs: Fired executives file complaint, claim Larry Scott knew about Comcast overpayments
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Mark Shuken and Brent Willman have filed a wrongful termination complaint against the conference.

Former Pac-12 executives Mark Shuken and Brent Willman have filed a wrongful termination complaint against the conference following their dismissals for their roles in the Comcast overpayment scandal.

But the complaint alleges they did, in fact, properly report the issue — they repeatedly told then-commissioner Larry Scott about the situation after it was discovered in December 2017, and Scott told them “not to say or do anything.” Filed in San Francisco Superior Court this week and obtained by the Hotline, the document calls the twin terminations of Shuken and Willman an “egregious case of scapegoating and the cover-up of retaliation.”that announced the terminations of unnamed executives has caused “irreparable harm” to their reputations. Damages are “in amounts to be established at trial and believed to be in excess of $2 million,” according to the complaint.

However, the complaint states that Shuken and Willman repeatedly told Scott, who served as both commissioner and chief executive of the Pac-12 Networks:

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