BTU Ventures and BTU Industries Holdings (USA) Inc. sue 3rd former employee or contractor in less than a year using similar allegations

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An energy investment company and an affiliate have sued their former head of information technology and data security, alleging the one-time employee is refusing to return “highly confidential internal company data” unless he gets a “substantially larger severance payment.”
Link: Local energy firms sue former IT manager to recover data - Boston Business Journal