A former City Council staffer says his boss intentionally underpaid him because he is autistic and lives at home.
Michael Bistreich, 30, leveled the new claims against former Brooklyn pol Vincent Gentile as part of an ongoing $10 million discrimination suit against Gentile and the city from 2016.
“The council member had stated that I live at home so I shouldn’t be paid as much, basically insinuating that I can’t take care of myself and he wants to give money to people who he thinks needs it to live on their own,” Bistreich told The Post.
He says he was paid $31,000 to work as both the legislative director and budget director, but after he was fired in 2016, Gentile hired two people for those jobs and paid them a combined $75,000.
A source close to the office said it was Bistreich’s first job out of college and the pay was justified.
Before he left Gentile’s office, “he made comments like, ‘No one can fire me. I will sue,'” the source added. “It shows he knows what he’s doing.”
Gentile did not respond to a request for comment. The city Law Department declined comment.