Word: misconducts
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...Medical Center in California: "A victim seeking redress often finds herself silenced for the sake of the university's athletic success." A classic example occurred in 1983, when University of Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell telephoned a coed in an attempt to have her drop an accusation of sexual misconduct against one of his players. Driesell's action drew only a reprimand from the school...
L.A.P.D. records, which do not list excessive-force complaints separately, show an overall drop in claims and lawsuits against the 7,900-man force since 1985. But statistics from the Police Misconduct Lawyers Referral Service, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group that counsels police-abuse victims, suggest the department's figures are misleading. The group's executive director, Karol Heppe, says the agency receives more than 200 police-abuse and rights-violation complaints each month. L.A.P.D. spokesmen concede that the department's reputation for no-nonsense law enforcement is justified. But they deny charges of widespread overaggressiveness or brutality...
...Internal Revenue Service is tough on taxpayers, but the agency can be a soft touch when it comes to misconduct by its top executives. Case in point: two former IRS officials, Frank Santella and Joseph Jech. The Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that protects whistle blowers, filed civil charges in May against the two for harassing and demoting two IRS managers who tried to snitch on their superior, Santella, a former regional boss in the Chicago IRS office. Santella allegedly went after the informers with the help of Jech, who retired in June...
Jech and Santella were among 25 high-ranking IRS officials implicated in a pattern of misconduct and corruption uncovered in hearings last year by the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. If found guilty of the OSC charges, both men could be banned for life from Government service. The alleged offenses began in 1984, when the whistle blowers turned in Santella for trading favors with a Mob-linked businessman. Thereafter, senior IRS officials began a harassment campaign that is still going...
...response to congressional attacks, IRS commissioner Fred Goldberg restructured the agency last January. While not punishing any of the implicated high-level IRS wrong doers, his plan calls for a presumably independent body, the Treasury Department's inspector general, to handle all high-level misconduct probes in the future. But the OSC is now investigating whether the inspector's office itself was involved in harassing the Chicago whistle blowers. Moreover, in August 1989, only weeks after Santella's behavior was denounced in congressional hearings, Treasury I.G. deputy Robert Cesca wrote a glowing letter recommending Santella for a top post with...