Moreno addressed Brown’s claim and the lawsuit on Breitbart News Saturday where the GOP nominee said “Sherrod Brown has never had a job that wasn’t being an elected official. So, of course, he’s going to vilify anybody who had a real job that wasn’t being paid for by the taxpayer with no accountability. So let’s get that out of the way.”

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Moreno went on to explain that the lawsuit arose in Massachusettes after employees of a furniture store - a case unrelated to Moreno or his businesses - sued for overtime back pay and the case rose to the Massachusettes Supreme Court where it was decided that businesses were required to pay sales employees overtime. The decision was statewide and applied retroactively.

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Moreno said the two former employees of the Massachusetts dealership brought forth their claim after he already sold his dealerships. A fact that Brown doesn’t mention is his attack ads.

Moreno told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew O’Boyle:

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“But they made the ruling retroactive, so they went backward and said, ‘If you don’t agree with our interpretation of wage law, you owe all this overtime,'” he continued. “Every commission business in Massachusetts was affected whether it’s a furniture store, a car dealership, not just my business,” he added.

Following that Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, two of Moreno’s former employees brought a lawsuit against him.

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“I had probably 60 salespeople during the four years I owned that dealership,” he said. “Two of them that, by the way, were the worst performing salespeople in terms of showing up on time–these were salespeople that made $150,000 to $200,000 a year. If they showed up 35 hours in the week, it was a big deal; in fact, one of them was fired because he didn’t show up to work on time. They sued me.”

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“Of course, an uber-liberal Boston jury heard the case for a week and, in seven to ten minutes, decided exactly how much overtime these two salespeople were entitled to,” Moreno continued. “It was in the teens, you know, maybe 12, 13,14, $15,000 over three and a half years, between the two of them; they awarded that. And, of course, in Massachusetts, you’re subjected to crazy penalties and attorney fees, and that’s how it got $400,000.”

Moreno said the process demonstrates the importance of Supreme Court races in states that have them, like Ohio, emphasizing, “If you put radical lunatics in these courts, they’re going to destroy this country.”