A LIPA official who is at the center of an ethics complaint against the authority and who has testified in the state inspector general’s investigation of the utility was fired on Wednesday after he declined to sign off on new performance metrics for PSEG, he told Newsday on Thursday.

Billy Raley, who until Wednesday was senior vice president of transmission and distribution for the Long Island Power Authority, was fired over the phone after a discussion with LIPA’s newly named chief executive, Carrie Meek Gallagher, he said.

"They tried to make the metrics easier" for PSEG, Raley said. "I replied back with what I thought they should be. They sent me another set of numbers" that he further disagreed with. "I said I will not sign off on this."

Shortly thereafter, Riley said, "I was told n

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