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Adamcik and Vince eventually were transferred to other posts. Vince's attorney, Dave Stetler, calls the allegations against his client "absolutely false" and says ATF disciplined Vince without formally charging him with anything. (Adamcik could not be reached for comment.) An internal investigation sustained some of Klipfel's allegations. It reported that Boyle had arranged free use of a nightclub for the division's 1992 Eliot Ness Birthday Party. Adamcik had also invited Boyle to play in the division's Eliot Ness Golf Tournament, held in Indiana on a workday. Boyle couldn't attend, however. Awaiting sentencing, he wasn...
Klipfel's husband Mike Casali says he too passed along disturbing news about a Chicago cop, this from an informant who reported a rumor that a cop assigned to ATF was selling guns to gang members and had helped cover up a murder...
CASALI AND KLIPFEL, LABELED AS snitches, fast became outcasts. Klipfel found a black plastic rat in her office. Pictures of her children were knocked off her desk repeatedly. In a lawsuit they filed in Chicago federal court, Klipfel and Casali allege that ATF conducted a "deliberate and strenuous" campaign of retribution meant to suppress further disclosures of misconduct. Says Sanders: "Retaliation is so obvious...
...ATF director Magaw denies the couple's charges but declines to discuss their case further. "Both people in Chicago are going to be fired," he states. "I'm going to continue that process. They deserve to be fired...
Retaliation is something of a pattern within the ATF, according to a recent internal investigation by the Treasury Inspector General's office. In a report sent to Magaw last year, the investigators said they found that of 370 Equal Employment Opportunity complaints filed by employees, 105 resulted in charges being filed with Internal Affairs against the complainers or their supporting witnesses. In 54 of these cases, Internal Affairs launched full investigations. The report cited an array of management practices that "created at least a perception among some ATF employees that managers abused their authority by retaliating, harassing or intimidating...