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Trials & Tribulations: Did carting firm salesman steal customers? - RecordOnline.com - The Times Herald Record

By Oliver Mackson

Michael DiMase of Milford, Pa., quit his job two months ago, telling his boss at a local waste-carting company that he wasn't happy with his salary and that he wanted to leave the burgeoning New York City suburbs to "slow his life down" in western Pennsylvania.

That's according to a federal lawsuit filed last week. The suit says that DiMase did anything but slow his life down. It claims that he actually went to work for a competitor and started trying to cherry-pick his old employer's trash customers, specifically customers in Orange and Rockland counties. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains, accuses DiMase of interfering with his old employer's contracts, violating the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and "misappropriation" of trade secrets.

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