FOX NEWS : the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported at least six allegations of sexual misconduct involving senior officials in the past five years, including two new allegations filed this week by female employees who said that they had been sexually assaulted by senior officials.
Among them, an assistant director of the FBI retired after being accused of being drunk and molesting a female subordinate in the stairwell. Another senior FBI official left after being found to have sexually harassed eight employees.
Another senior FBI agent retired after being accused of blackmailing a young employee and coercing him to have sex with him.
An Associated Press investigation found that in the past five years, there have been at least six allegations of improper sexual behavior involving senior FBI officials.
The Associated Press found that each of the alleged FBI officials appeared to have evaded disciplinary action, and several of them were quietly transferred or retired, retaining full pension and welfare benefits even if the investigation confirmed the allegations of improper sexual behavior against them.
In addition, even after the disciplinary investigation process is over, federal law enforcement officials can be anonymous, allowing them to establish themselves in the private sector and even continue to participate in government law enforcement.
A former FBI analyst said in a new federal lawsuit that “they are covering up the truth.” In 2017, a senior agent licked and touched her face at a colleague’s farewell party.
The analyst eventually left the FBI and was diagnosed with PTSD.
The Associated Press, which reviewed court records, reports from the Attorney General’s Office and interviews with federal law enforcement officials, found at least six charges against senior officials, including an assistant director and special agents in charge of the entire field office, including unwilling touch, sexual assault and coercion.
The last extensive investigation of sexual misconduct within the FBI found that from 2009 to 2012, there were 343 “violations”, including three “uncouncoined acts”. It means to shoot naked women.
A few months ago, the 17th woman joined a federal lawsuit alleging systematic sexual harassment at the FBI Training Institute in Quantico, Virginia. The class action case involves the FBI’s male instructors making “sexual” remarks, accusing women of needing to “control their emotions through contraception”, and inviting female students to their homes and publicly despising them.
In a new lawsuit Wednesday, a former FBI employee said that in 2016, a special agent “imprisoned, tortured, harassed, blackmailed, stalked and manipulated” she had several “involuntary sexual contacts”, including in the car, and then retired normally and opened a law firm.
Her lawyer David J. Schaefer (David J. Shaffer) claimed in the lawsuit: “The policy and practice of the FBI and its supervision department are to allow senior managers accused of sexual assault to quietly retire without being prosecuted for full benefits.”
Another charge involves Roger C., former deputy director of the FBI’s Insider Threat Office. Stanton) According to an earlier report of the Inspector General’s Office this year, Stanton is suspected of molesing the woman while picking up and dropping off her female colleague home after drinking with a colleague. After arriving at the woman’s residence, he wrapped his hands around the waist in the stairwell and touched the woman’s buttocks. The female colleague ran away in a hurry, but Stanton still called and harassed the woman 15 times afterwards.
Stanton, however, disputed the woman’s claim and told investigators that he “doesn’t plan to do anything” and only hugged her because the stairs were “narrow”. But Stanton admitted that he was “very embarrassed about the incident”. Stanton retired in late 2018, after an investigation determined that he sexually harassed the woman and sought improper relationships.
