Brown was named MPX’s national compliance director in 2018 and when iAnthus took over MPX’s operations in 2018, Brown was required to interview for his job, while the white compliance officers were not required to do the same, the lawsuit contends. Brown alleges that iAnthus demoted him to a regional compliance officer role and promoted a white man to take over the national job, the report says. Moreover, Brown said that budget or personnel requests he submitted went ignored, but such requests submitted by white compliance officers were approved and that he was left to do the jobs of several people and duties that fell outside of his job description, the report says.
NJ.com first reported on Brown’s claims in July. At that time, iAnthus CEO Randy Maslow called the claims “inaccurate, deliberately false and frankly defamatory.”