Shopping plaza owner and operator Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust is accused in a whistleblower lawsuit of firing a whistleblower who reported an alleged scheme to inflate rental income by millions of dollars.

Jeannette Hathaway, who lives in Miami-Dade County, is suing publicly traded Ramco, a Farmington Hills, Michigan-based shopping center real estate investment trust, saying it subjected her to workplace harassment until firing her Feb. 26 because of her reports.