Report: FBI official used ‘poor judgment’ in suit

Published August 27, 2014 10:57pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leader of the FBI’s Milwaukee field office used “extremely poor judgment” in trying to influence the testimony of a subordinate in a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to a Justice Department inspector general report issued Wednesday.

The report concerns a discrimination complaint brought two years ago by Justin Slaby, a Wisconsin native who lost his left hand in an Army training accident and argued in his lawsuit that the FBI wrongly kicked him out of its training academy because of his injury. An Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Slaby contended that he was qualified to serve despite his prosthesis.

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