Zodiac Seat Shells fires and sues its former CFO - Santa Maria Sun
Zodiac Seat Shells fires and sues its former CFO BY DAVID MINSKY Last October, then-Santa Maria City Planning Commissioner Etta Waterfield and commercial realtors were handing out free hotdogs and tacos to employees of Zodiac Seat Shells in the... Former Zodiac Chief Financial Officer dropped by and even took a photo with Waterfield for a story the Sun ran in early November 2014. . Stuckey, then CFO for Zodiac, was fired in June 2015, and a lawsuit filed in Santa Barbara County Superior... Beyond what’s listed in the lawsuit, neither Zodiac nor Stuckey are commenting on the situation, but there are some things that are easily confirmed. Zodiac Seat Shells is one of Santa Maria’s largest employers, employing several thousand workers in the city, and specializes in designing and assembling passenger seats for aircraft manufacturers. As for what’s in the lawsuit: It states the company’s Santa Maria affiliate hired Stuckey in December 2012 as a plant controller, a position similar to that of a CFO. As part of his job, Stuckey was entrusted with protecting the company’s money, including “preserving company assets,” the lawsuit said. Source: www.santamariasun.com
