The fallout from the contentious firing of former Philadelphia Museum of Art director Sasha Suda continues to reverberate through the institution, recent litigation suggests.

Former Philadelphia Museum of Art CFO Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of “spite and retaliation.” But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreement by factory-resetting her museum-issued phone and potentially destroying communications relevant to Suda’s wrongful termination lawsuit.

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As first reported by Urgent Matter Press , McDuffie filed her complaint in May in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, which claims that the museum withheld the $144,691.60 severance promised her. She alleges that the museum used her purported failure to “cooperate” with its internal investigation into Suda’s firing as a pretext for withholding the payment.…