Legal Opinion
William Armstrong v. Karen Thompson
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 21, 2013No. 12-CV-1197PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKWITH, Associate Judge:
Appellant William Armstrong, a former special agent with the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), 1 was on the verge of leaving TIGTA to take a job at the United States Department of Agriculture (USD A) when the USD A abruptly rescinded its offer of employment after one of Mr. Armstrong’s TIGTA coworkers sent six then-anonymous letters to the USD A avowing that the agency was making a “grave error” in offering Mr. Armstrong a job because he was under internal investigation for serious integrity violations and other misconduct and would be a…
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