The Merit Systems Protection Board has affirmed the removal from office of Danvers Long, who had been an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for Social Security, after he was arrested in Coral Springs, FL for domestic violence battery and culpable negligence.
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What does that have to do with his job as an ALJ?
ReplyDelete"We have considered as a mitigating factor the respondent’s long federal service without prior discipline. He has had a 35-year career, 28 years as an attorney for the Federal Aviation Administration and 7 years as an ALJ for the SSA. In that time, he has not been subject to any prior disciplinary action. In addition, the record does not reflect that the incident of January 27, 2008, gained great public notoriety."
Be a lazy ALJ no problem, get in fight with your wife that she might have started and you lose your job.
Total BS.
"The prosecutor entered a nolle prosequi on the criminal charges on September 29, 2008"
ReplyDeleten. (Abbr. nol. pros.)
A declaration that the plaintiff in a civil case or the prosecutor in a criminal case will drop prosecution of all or part of a suit or indictment.
So the loses his job over a case that was dropped.
If commenter #2 really doesn't know how this behavior related to his job as an ALJ, then said commenter needs to grab the smelling salts and wake up.
ReplyDelete"If commenter #2 really doesn't know how this behavior related to his job as an ALJ, then said commenter needs to grab the smelling salts and wake up."
ReplyDeleteYou tell me.
I BET COMMENTER #2 THOUGHT SLICK WILLIE CLINTON WAS JUST WONDERFUL TOO!
ReplyDeleteLook, #2 and 5, if you think wife-beaters have the temperament and judgment to be ALJs, fine. You might want to read the decision and note the MSPB's analysis of this matter. It's well done and informative.
ReplyDeleteIt's simple to me,and i'm not a lwayer.
ReplyDeleteIf an alj commit one illegal act. He/she may commit another one.
If you check the Oregonian site, you see this judge was a low producer. A few months ago, the agency sought discharge of a judge in California. He was also a low producer. On the other hand, a regional chief who assaulted another ALJ was not terminated. I know of an alcoholic judge who has conducted hearings while drunk but is a high producer. Does that make you think?
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