Re: HELP!! Government employee in real bind

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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.

Your employer has the right to employ whomever they choose.
If they know about his criminal background and it's not an
issue for them, then that's just the way it is. There is
nothing you can do to force them to fire your supervisor.
You were fine working with this man, who it appears you
respected and felt was doing a fine job, until you decided
to go digging around in his past. If his behavior on the
job is appropriate, then that's the end of it. What you
describe does not constitute a hostile work environment.