The New Jersey attorney general is bristling over being saddled with the costs of defending a fired Department of Labor official in a discrimination suit for his off-color ethnic remarks at a staff meeting.

Harry Pappas was acting outside the scope of his employment as special assistant to the labor commissioner when he called immigrants “wetbacks” and “boat-jumpers,” the state argues.

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