this stinks. I don't hold this guy 100% blameless, tho it is pretty obvious he was getting the shaft politically within his organization. Looks like he tried to make a situation to prove he was "the Man" and get some status returned-and got caught. Then when it gets out there's some problems in the nice Democrat controlled government system, they need to make sure the old white guy is the "Bad Guy" and start running up the charges in best Clintonesque practice. One of my favorite Old White Guys here a the office, last of the old-school gurus, has been on the end of such things twice in the last six years and managed to only lose professional status simply because he was paranoid enough to hold records before the assaults on his professional status began. They attacked four other people (with full Union backing) who didn't have the longevity and managed to sack one of them simply to try to build a bulletproof case against him-seems losing the last time had cost this office and the Union a decent sum when discrimination was proved.

They've been probably trying to get the this old guy out to hose him out of his full retirement and bennies, making room for some new kid who happens to fit a few "protected" classes for "affirmative action".