Despite ethics pledge, FMCS hired director’s old boss to do legal work

By Luke Rosiak

Published December 18, 2014 9:26pm ET

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Despite ethics pledge, FMCS hired director’s old boss to do legal work — Legal paperwork shows that in a 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity complaint brought by an employee, in which then-director George Cohen was the named defendant, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was represented by the law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. (iStock Photo)

Officials at an obscure federal agency with a history of steering contracting dollars to its own staffers and their friends hired its director’s immediate past employer, then tried to hide it.

Legal paperwork shows that in a 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity complaint brought by an employee, in which then-director George Cohen was the named defendant, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was represented by the law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser.

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