The former manager of Fleishman-Hillard [3]'s (F-H) Los Angeles office Douglas R. Dowie [4] is suing the PR company for sacking him from his $370,000 a year job over the overbilling [5] of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power [6] (DWP). "When it got real hot politically, Fleishman, instead of standing by him and protecting him, they just threw him to the wolves," Dowie's attorney, Michael Faber, said [7]. City officials have disputed $4.2 million of F-H billings between 1998 and 2004 under the $24 million DWP contract. The lawsuit states that in a conference call with Dowie after the controversy erupted, a F-H official said that someday "we'll all be singing 'Happy Days are Here Again'," reports [8] the Los Angeles Times.