Unhappy Days Are Here Again for Fleishman-Hillard

The former manager of Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) Los Angeles office Douglas R. Dowie is suing the PR company for sacking him from his $370,000 a year job over the overbilling of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP). "When it got real hot politically, Fleishman, instead of standing by him and protecting him, they just threw him to the wolves," Dowie's attorney, Michael Faber, said. City officials have disputed $4.2 million of F-H billings between 1998 and 2004 under the $24 million DWP contract. The lawsuit states that in a conference call with Dowie after the controversy erupted, a F-H official said that someday "we'll all be singing 'Happy Days are Here Again'," reports the Los Angeles Times.