O'Hara v. Department of Homeland Security

Sean P. O’Hara appeals the Merit Systems Protection Board’s final decision affirming his removal for lack of candor and misuse of government property. Mr. O’Hara asserts that the Board erred in affirming the lack of candor charge and removal penalty. Because the Board’s decision is supported by substantial evidence and is not arbitrary or capricious, we affirm.

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Mr. O’Hara was employed as a Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer in the Enforcement and Removal Operations Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. On February 28, 2012,…