Stay-at-home training director Michael Cunningham says his career with the Department of Labor slipped off the tracks around six years ago when he complained to the Inspector General’s Office about an e-mail he received from a supervisor encouraging state employees to buy tickets to Gov. George Pataki’s annual prayer breakfast. That’s what Cunningham’s friends and representatives say, too. Cunningham is “working” from home, his assigned office the past 19 months as he faces disciplinary action. He does little more than call a secretary twice a day to prove he’s at his Colonie residence
“His problems go back to the era where it was deeply resented that he helped to expose the prayer breakfast fiasco,” said Assemblyman John McEneny, who said he’s known Cunningham since the 1980s. “I would hope that the public’s outrage is with management. Michael is the victim. He’s been a nervous wreck over this.”
