![]() “Not only did headquarters in Washington punish Bobby for standing up for a fellow employee who clearly was being harassed and discriminated against based on her gender and sexual orientation, but it sent a clear message to other Marshal Service employees that they could expect the same treatment if they, too, rocked the boat and took actions that could embarrass headquarters.”Ī spokeswoman for the U.S. “This is a classic example of retaliation for protected activities,” Ledogar’s lawyer, Raymond R. ![]() (He also has a pending complaint before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for retaliation and harassment.) On Monday, Ledogar filed written closing arguments to the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which will determine whether he was wrongfully terminated and if he’s entitled to his full retirement. Marshal, lack of candor, misuse of position and misuse of a government property-IT device-a charge relating to photos on his government phone of a fugitive model’s Playboy spread. Those endorsements did little to dissuade agency headquarters from terminating him based on charges including, among others, conduct unbecoming a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshals since 1995 and has received 166 letters of support from law enforcement colleagues and managers in response to the agency’s proposals in 20 to remove him from federal service. The 51-year-old Navy veteran, who served in the Gulf War, was with the U.S. Now Ledogar is fighting for his pension and appealing his termination, which he claims was retaliation for exposing the harassment of his subordinate-at a time when the federal law enforcement agency was under pressure from a Senate investigation. In Mahoney’s case, internal affairs closed its inquiry into her claims of harassment without taking action, and when the agency investigated the shoving incident, it found her accusations “unsubstantiated.” One of those probes led to his termination last year, when he was 70 days away from retirement. Marshals Service initiated four internal affairs investigations-what his attorneys have referred to as “fishing expeditions”-against him in as many years. Marshal for the Eastern District of New York Charles Dunne, and Chief Deputy Bryan Mullee-and pressed for an internal investigation.īut Ledogar says that after he defended Mahoney, the U.S. Ledogar, who worked in both Brooklyn and Central Islip federal courts and was a warrant-squad supervisor, reported the shoving incident up the chain of command-to then-U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, that she was concerned for her safety because of the alleged bullying, which she believed was escalating and potentially dangerous in the field. Mahoney told Bobby Ledogar, then a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshals Service Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) that she believed her coworker’s actions were “premeditated,” records show, and that “his presence there was to instill fear in her and to send a message.” ![]() One of those lawmen was later accused of shoving her from behind as she monitored a woman inside a house during the execution of a search warrant. In another episode, a task force member allegedly gazed at her body and said, “Look at you, you sexy bitch,” before grabbing her waist when she walked past him. ![]() ![]() A gay woman and Army vet, Mahoney claimed some of her male colleagues in the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force were harassing her relentlessly, and that the office culture was akin to the movie Animal House, but with guns.Īt one point, she claimed, someone in her office in Central Islip, New York, urinated in a cookie jar on her desk. Marshal Dawn Mahoney went to her supervisor for help. ![]()
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