Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen is fighting back against the state of Oklahoma and calling out a former employee. Court documents show two suits were filed in Oklahoma County. One is a countersuit fighting the states’ lawsuit against the business and the other is against the former executive vice president of the company.In the countersuit against the state, Swadley’s denies the state is entitled to the relief it has requested because of everything from breach of contract claims. To business disparagement.The restaurant company said they are justified because they completed the task of turning the state’s tourism restaurants around from “dilapidated” to successful between 2019 and April of this year, amid a pandemic and supply chain issues.The suit against the company’s former executive vice president Curt Breuklander said he made claims that the state of Oklahoma paid too much in the tourism deal with Swadley’s and state parks.The suit said that’s defamation and Breuklander was very aware and involved in deals with the state. The suit said Breuklander demanded an ownership interest in the Swadley’s family business and was denied. He left the company in September of 2021 and tried to blackmail the company with data and information he had allegedly stolen from his employees. When the Swadley family tried to investigate, court documents said someone had turned off the company security cameras during Breuklander’s last two weeks of employment and the company license for the security cameras was in his name.The document details that Breuklander demanded $15 million from Swadley’s in return for company property and data and when they didn’t pay it, he threatened harm to the family and Swadley’s restaurant locations.