Jim Mustian, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — An assistant FBI manager retired after he had been accused of drunkenly groping a feminine subordinate in a stairwell. Another FBI that is senior official after he had been discovered to own intimately harassed eight workers. Just one more high-ranking FBI agent resigned after he had been accused of blackmailing a young employee into intimate encounters.

An Associated Press research has identified at the very least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials within the last 5 years, including two brand new claims brought this week by women that state they certainly were intimately assaulted by ranking agents. All the accused FBI officials seems to have avoided control, the AP found, and many had been quietly transported or resigned, maintaining their complete retirement benefits and advantages also whenever probes substantiated the misconduct that is sexual against them.

Beyond that, federal police force officials are afforded privacy even with the disciplinary process operates its program, letting them secure on the foot when you look at the personal sector if not stay static in police force.

“They’re sweeping it underneath the rug,” stated an old FBI analyst whom alleges in a fresh lawsuit that is federal a supervisory special representative licked her face and groped her at a colleague’s farewell celebration in 2017. She finished up leaving the FBI and contains been clinically determined to have post-traumatic anxiety disorder.

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