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Ex-CAT dealer sales manager, facing $9M lawsuit, says former employer smeared him after he quit

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Oct 6, 2016 @ 4:50pm

A former sales manager for a DuPage County dealer of Caterpillar heavy equipment has fired back against his former employer’s legal claims he manipulated sales promotions for his own benefit, and has filed his own lawsuit against the owner of Patten Industries, claiming his ex-boss followed through on threats to treat his departure to another company as “a bad divorce” by launching a smear campaign to ruin him professionally.