Three female Special Agents in West Coast field division suffer gender discrimination and racial discrimination by West Coast GS. One female quits the other two hire an attorney and file EEO complaints. One agent's complaint is against their supervisor, West Coast GS and the FIC and a fellow S/A who retaliated against her after filing EEO against GS. Both females are successful with complaint and win settlement. The second female agent quits ATF as unable to tolerate hostile/retaliatory work environment.
Several years later two additional ATF S/A's in other offices on the West Coast in same field division suffer discrimination/retaliation from same FIC who was record for his abuse of the ATF firearms policies from years earlier. It had been reported officially by another GS that if FIC was not dealt with further complaints would be filed.
One S/A is fired after FIC untruthfully according to ATFs own records, states he failed to qualify. He is terminated from his S/A position, forced to hire an attorney to fight for his job back. During his appeal process he requests the aforementioned memo from Female S/A mentioned above. Female S/A was ordered to turn over this memo by West Coast ASAC after male S/A's attorney demands the memo be turned over in discovery. ATF denies knowledge that such a memo exists.
Once the female ATF agent turns over memo, she is immediately denied opportunities which would further enhance her career. Opportunities that her RAC and other SA's in her field division are allowed to participate in. ASAC then reports to new West Coast Field Division SAC she is not doing her job and she suffers further retaliation. This S/A's agent has a formal EEO complaint that has been filed which is currently pending in the EEO process.
