>. . Garrett told The College Fix in an email that KCCD agreed to pay out the amounts specified in the settlement in order to avoid paying larger penalties in the event that it lost an ongoing lawsuit against Garrett concerning the validity of these and other claims. >“After five years of administrative misconduct, a decisive courtroom display exonerated me of all allegations and exposed that Kern Community College District engaged in flagrant retaliation for my questioning of partisan policies and wasteful expenditures,” Garrett said. >Garrett’s lawsuit named several defendants, including KCCD board president John Corkins, who said of Garrett and a number of his colleagues, “that’s why we put a rope on them and take them to the slaughterhouse,” during a longer statement in which he advocated for their termination. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/FLr6a)