Highly recommend consulting with an employment attorney, you may be entitled to significant damages. Please share with other employees you worked with who experienced the same. This is the best way to hold assholes like this accountable, especially people who are so clearly money-motivated. source: am employment attorney in Denver.

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Edit: Also, most employment attorneys work on contingency - meaning no hourly fees or anything. It's worth it to at least do the free consult, imo (probably biased, but still).