ROCKLAND, Mass. — UPDATE: Albert Giannini was suspended two weeks without pay by the town after an investigation into his misconduct during the January plowing incident.
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ORIGINAL POST: First, cameras caught a Rockland town employee almost hitting a man with a front-end loader, now FOX25 investigates has uncovered more bad behavior involving the same man.
FOX25's Eric Rasmussen dug up evidence that this employee has been accused of using his position to intimidate people before.
It all came out in a lawsuit.
FOX25 Investigates first reported surveillance video of 56-year-old Giannini almost running down the owner of a car lot and dumping snow on his property.
When Albert ‘Albie’ Giannini was caught dumping snow on the lot of a local business this month, he said it was "bad judgment."
Now the family of a former coworker says they've seen his act before and they say the town let it slide.
Matt Chase showed FOX25 an image that shows Giannini in a town of Rockland truck making an obscene hand gesture.
“It just shows you the kind of person he is,” Chase said. “He's been bullying people for years and it's just about time he finally got caught on TV.”
Chase said his brother Justin, who is developmentally delayed, was targeted by Giannini several years ago when they worked together for the highway department.
“Albie and some of the crew there used to pick on him all the time, calling him ‘moron,’ ‘stupid,’ and ‘what are you, a retard?’ Stuff like that,” Matt said. “There was a dead skunk in the highway barn. He picked it up with a shovel and chased my brother around the highway barn, with a dead skunk on a shovel, until my brother actually locked himself in a truck for two hours in 90 degree weather.”
Yet it was Chase who was let go. His family filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against Giannini and the town of Rockland.
FOX25 investigates tried again to talk to Giannini, who's been on paid leave since the snow dumping confrontation.
Earlier this month, Rockland's town administrator called it an isolated incident and said the town didn’t condone that type of behavior.
“If they don't condone it, I don't think Albie would have a job today. And I don't think he should have a job today,” Chase said.
A lawyer for chase says the lawsuit with the town was settled for an undisclosed amount.
Giannini's immediate supervisor refused our request for an interview today and referred us to Rockland's town administrator.
He told me they're still deciding whether Giannini will keep his job.
FOX25 reached out to Giannini, but he did not return any phone calls.
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