When we left Robert Ledogar in September of 2021 he was fighting for restoration of his federal pension. Two months before he was supposed to retire on April 20, 2021, the U.S. Marshal service notified him that he had been fired. Ledogar is still waiting to find out if his pension can be restored. Ledogar has had to generate monies in order to continue the funding of his Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and his Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) cases. Ledogar is still relying on his widening support network and his wife to carry him through some very tough times.
On August 23, 2021, in Ledogar’s final closing argument in the hearing held in his appeal, Chief Deputy United States Marshal Bryan Mullee noted: “The case before you is not about dispensing justice in the form of discipline but rather about retaliation.”
Ledogar’s case was simply about the wrongful treatment he experienced for having “stood up for a gay female subordinate against the harassing and discriminatory misconduct of members of the USMS-led New York/New Jersey Regional Task Force in Central Islip.”
A week before Christmas 2021, an Administrative Law Judge for the MSPB in New York ruled against Ledogar. Ledogar feels that Administrative Law Judges are understaffed, overworked and overwhelmed. He noted, “The cases are being handled by law clerks who find them too complex.” Raymond Granger, Ledogar’s attorney, has appealed to...
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