Re: HELP!! Government employee in real bind

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My suggestions---Do not shower with the guy. Do not wear
provocative clothing to work. Do not send him flowers. And
next time---mind your own d*mn business. Unless he was
applying for benefits, you had no reason to be digging into
his record.

On 11/22/07, Fed. Up wrote:
> I am a federal government employee and I work in the
> Social Security Adm. I was working in the front end,
> interviewing the public roughly 3 months back. A man came
> in and recognized my supervisor from jail. I thought
> nothing of it because it seemed so highly improbable. My
> supervisor was a polished, educated and articulate man. It
> just seemed too unlikely, I thought it was an obvious case
> of mistaken identity. So I let it pass for the moment.
>
> Most people little if any understanding about the Social
> Security Administration. The volume in a field office is
> borderline ridicules. However we not only attempt to
> handle everything with the highest levels of security and
> integrity we truly succeed. I take the security and
> integrity of my duties to heart and I truly believe in
> what I do.
>
> Let me give you a little back ground on myself. I am a
> college educated, ex-military, christian, spotless record
> employee with 5 years as a Service Representative with SSA.
>
> Part of my responsibilities at SSA include handling
> prisoners, payee accounting's, fraud referrals to OIG, the
> Office of the Inspector General and all other SSA
> business. I personally handle prisoners. Each recipient
> that gets locked up is reported to SSA by law enforcement
> and I research each individual prison to stop or continue
> benefits. The point being I know how to successfully
> research court cases. I also lead my office in all fraud
> referrals to OIG. So I take fraud and crimes against our
> government very seriously, maybe the most seriously of all
> f my duties.
>
> Sorry about the tangents but I believe them to be
> necessary to complete my points.
>
> I let a few weeks pass by before I kept thinking about
> what that guy told me about my supervisor. I thought about
> being swore in to uphold and carry out these duties no
> matter what the situation.
>
> I began to research the case. I went through our county
> clerk of courts site to see if I got any hits. I saw a
> case from 1995 regarding a voyeurism charge but I could
> not get to the facts due to security reasons. I went down
> to the courthouse on my lunch hours, over the course of
> days. Reading through the voyeurism case I learned of
> another case from 1974. the reference in teh 1995 case
> claimed it was a sexual crime of violence against women. I
> began to research that case back. Upon the completion of
> my research I discovered that my Supervisor at the Social
> Security Administration, the "Gate Keepers" of the federal
> government, was a convicted kidnapper, rapist and armed
> robber who spent 9 1/2 years in a penitentiary. He was
> educated in prison and received his Bachelors degree from
> a state university. The facts in the case described some
> of the most unspeakable acts of violence against women
> that I have ever heard of before. It was a week long spree
> of raping multiple women at knife point in homes and motel
> rooms, he then robbed them, as if their lives weren't
> ruined enough. He was tried and convicted in 7 out of 9
> counts against 5 different women. I work with the disabled
> and the weak in society. I see first hand how rape ruins a
> woman. Drug addiction, depression, panic disorders and
> various other psychological/emotional problems. I have
> family and friends who have had that horror in their
> lives.
>
> I went to our 2 OIG agents with my information. They were
> as shocked and stunned as I was over the whole thing. I
> printed out various facts in the cases to prove my claim.
> After waiting quietly for nearly 2 months, I went to them
> for an update on how mycase was progressing. I was told
> that headquarters with OIG went through the information
> and came back with there is little if anything that we can
> do. I thought that I needed to get this into other, more
> interested hands. I caught my Area Director in our
> building for a seminar and I requested that she contact me
> before she left. To my surprise, at the end of that day. I
> was asked to go back into our District Managers' office. I
> then proceeded to fill them in on what I knew and how I
> came upon the information. I was almost floored when my
> Disrict Manager told me that they knew all about his
> troubled past. I could not believe that they not only knew
> but hired him anyway. he has been there 6 years and was
> promoted a year ago. We now have a covicted serial rapist
> who spent 9 years in prison working in one of the most
> secure places in the country. He is in charge of the unit
> that issues Social Security numbers, money and accounting
> issues and Congressional cases in our office. He knows
> that I know and he is still my supervisor. I am working
> uder the most hostile conditions imaginable. I requested a
> transfer and was promised one by my Area Director. That
> fell through. I am literally stuck! it appears that he is
> there legally although it doesnt seem possible to me. This
> is just a thumb nail sketch of my predicimament. Please
> guide me. Does anyone know how I should contact or where I
> can turn? you cannot imagine how hard it is to go in to
> work every day. This seems like national news to me. A
> covicted rapist witin the management of the Social
> Security Adinistration. Help me please. I will consider
> any and all advise you may have for me. Thank you for
> reading my long post and I am sorry it went on so long. I
> just wanted you all to know how all of this transpired.
> Thanks again. Keep in mind that I need to get out of
> there. I cannot work for someone whom I will never
> respect. The whole thing angers and confuses me.