At the other end of the mousetrap was the bait: a giant bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

“O shit…lol!!!!”

“Fuck.lol,” wrote Rob Gray, another AIL vice president.

The company’s stock has recovered more than two-thirds of its lost value since then.

Among the active posters was Gentile, who later became a high-ranking executive at Globe.

In court filings, Dehning denied AIL’s allegations.

Both cases are still pending.

Jennifer Haworth, a spokesperson for Globe Life and AIL, did not respond to detailed queries.

“If I’d brought it up, I would have been blackballed,” he told BI.

BI was able to review only the excerpts of the chat threads that Dehning provided.

John L. Littrell, an attorney representing Bertini, declined to comment on his behalf.

Efforts to reach Gentile through various AIL representatives were not successful.

Giglione also referred to him as “my dawg,” he told BI.

“I had to deal with N-word jokes on a regular basis,” Bell said.

He did not respond to emails requesting comment.

She told BI that Lobello frequently sent her racist memes he found online that contained the N-word.

Court documents indicate Lobello still worked at the agency as recently as March.

The men’s texts also took aim at other people of color.

The text over the image reads “MEXICAN WORD OF THE DAY: CHICKEN WING.

MY WIFE PLAYS THE LOTTERY SO CHICKEN WING SOME MONEY.”

…SO CELEBRATE IT!"

I know y’all have different ways of wearing your hair."

“I never came to the office without a blazer and slacks,” Lafontant told BI.

Mercado, the attorney representing both Ackerman and Giglione, did not respond to requests for comment.

The secretary emptied trash pails for the other agents, Reay said, but not for her.

So Reay would take her own trash to the dumpster to be sure her work area looked professional.

After she did so, the charge says, AIL demanded that she forfeit her sales leads.

Nicole Korkolis, an OPEIU spokesperson, did not respond to requests for comment.

In its response to Presberry’s complaint, Liberty National denied that white agents got preferable assignments.

Amy Williamson, Mayfield’s attorney, said an EEOC investigation into hercomplaint is ongoing.

People working at Globe subsidiaries occasionally made racist remarks about customers, too.

“I felt humiliated as a Black man being there,” he said.