A verbal warning before. A firing this time. He says the timing tells the real story

He came back from leave and asked for help. Days later, a veteran engineer says, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond fired him.

Jonathan Seifert spent more than 30 years in IT and joined the Richmond Fed in 2016 as a channel engineer, according to a complaint filed June 16, 2026, in the US District Court of Colorado. The filing says he oversaw the bank's entire Treasury network, infrastructure that processes more than $20 trillion a year in Treasury securities. He earned promotions, awards and strong performance ratings, the complaint says.

Then his family was hit by crisis. The filing describes both of Seifert's sons suffering serious mental-health struggles over several years. In February 2024, the complaint says, he walked in on his youngest son attempting to take his own life and saved him. The trauma led Seifert to take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for his own mental health. He was later diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety, depression and ADHD, according to the filing.

What happened next is the heart of the case. The complaint says Seifert emailed the bank's human resources team on February 1, 2025, to again request reasonable accommodations for his disabilities before returning to work. Three days later, on February 4, he showed up and was placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, the filing says. On February 14, he was fired.

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