The Boston Water and Sewer Commission’s fired human resources director Marie Theodat was paid more than $45,000 by the quasi-public agency upon her termination.

The payout reflected Theodat’s unused vacation and personal time, Commission spokesperson Dolores Randolph said last Friday in response to a Herald public records request.

“As required by the Massachusetts Wage Act, Ms. Theodat received a payment of $45,093.59 for all accrued and unused vacation and personal time at the conclusion of her employment with the Commission,” Raldolph said. “This payment is not a ‘buyout’ because the payment was required by law.”

Theodat was paid a $202,873 annual salary with the Water and Sewer Commission. She was fired on April 18 after having been on paid administrative leave since Dec. 2 of last year, presumably allowing her to continue to accrue paid time off.

Theodat is embroiled in several civil lawsuits that include fraud allegations and was the subject of three internal investigations commissioned by her ex-employer.

The Commission has not stated a reason for her termination, and said in a prior records response that there was no severance agreement for Theodat.

Theodat was promoted just last September by the Commission and given a raise earlier in 2024, as part of a 61% pay hike she had received since 2019.

Her promotion, from human resources director to chief human resource officer, came after she was named as a defendant in a Suffolk Superior Court lawsuit that alleges she worked with relatives to swindle her elderly and dementia-ridden uncle out of his $1.1 million Dorchester home.

The lawsuit, filed in August 2024 and first reported by the Herald last September, alleges Theodat “fraudulently induced” her uncle, the plaintiff Rodolphe St. Cloud, to sign over the deed to his longtime home under the “guise” that he was signing documents related to his medical care.

At the time, another Superior Court lawsuit had been pending against Theodat, alleging that she stiffed a woman on a $75,000 mortgage loan. A jury last fall ruled in favor of the woman who filed suit in 2020 against Theodat, after a nearly weeklong trial, and ordered her to pay $72,000 to the plaintiff.

After both lawsuits came to light, a trio of unions representing Water and Sewer Commission employees began pressuring the Commission to investigate and suspend Theodat while the “severe” allegations leveled against her in civil lawsuits played out in court.

The unions, SEIU Local 888, IAM Local 100 and OPEIU Local 6, sent a letter to Henry Vitale, the Commission’s executive director, raising concerns about Theodat’s “personal access to sensitive information such as banking numbers, routing information” and social security numbers.

About a week before Theodat’s termination, the Commission released public records to the Herald, in response to a records request and appeal, that revealed the Commission had paid for three separate investigations into its ex-HR director.

The investigations included “allegations of misconduct,” the Commission said in a records response last month.

Nearly $30,000 was billed to the Commission in August and December 2024 for two investigations of an undisclosed nature, conducted by two separate law firms. One internal investigation into Theodat was also conducted by the Commission, at a cost that was not disclosed by the quasi-public agency, records show.