Verrault

"This civilian pay case is before us on cross-motions for summary judgment. The plaintiff, formerly a Tax Examiner, GS-592-5, in the Internal Revenue Service, was separated by adverse action after notice of charges, and he has exhausted his administrative remedies. The charges, both sustained, were that he had knowingly made false written and oral statements in matters of official interest, and that he had knowingly caused a former employer to falsify records and submit a false document. In substance, the unhappy story was that as a youth of 18 he had been fired from his employment as a…