Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Airport manager says he was libeled: Kalispell City Airport (S27), Kalispell, Montana

Kalispell’s part-time airport manager Fred Leistiko alleges he was libeled, slandered and defamed by Phil Guiffrida III, a member of the Kalispell City Council.

The complaint against Guiffrida was filed Tuesday in Flathead District Court by attorney Connie Leistiko, Fred’s wife.

“If you want to win an issue or an argument on the merit with facts, that’s a good thing, go for it,” Connie Leistiko said. “But if you want to do it through character assassination, that’s over the line and that’s why we filed the lawsuit.”

The complaint alleges that Guiffrida — acting as a private citizen and not in his capacity as a council member — made false, defamatory and malicious statements about Leistiko with reckless regard for the truth, in part accusing Leistiko of giving false and deceitful information to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2005 for the purpose of misappropriating federal funds.


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