Former Rutgers gymnastics coach Umme Salim-Beasley is suing the school for wrongful termination, claiming that school officials orchestrated a “witch-hunt” that involved “public scapegoating” to remove her from the position she had held for seven years, according to a copy of the 50-page complaint filed on Tuesday in New Jersey state court.

The discrimination and retaliation lawsuit alleges that Salim-Beasley was wrongfully terminated after an external investigation that “remains today unprecedented in scope, duration, and cost” and was “ostensibly to examine ‘the climate and culture’ of the gymnastics program.”

Instead, the investigation wound up being “inescapably pretextual, intended to discredit Umme, subject her to disparate treatment, and ultimately remove her from Rutgers

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