A jury awarded two former Union Bank employees a total of more than $2.5 million today, concluding they were discriminated against because of their ages, wrongfully terminated and defamed…The jurors rejected claims of ethnic discrimination and harassment…They were fired in September 2009 because they violated bank policy by making an investment with a client, creating a conflict of interest, bank attorneys argued…But the plaintiffs' attorneys maintained Behar and Greek did not violate any bank rules…[and] said the two were defamed, because each time they tried to get new banking industry jobs, they were turned away after explaining the reasons Union Bank officials gave for firing them…