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...TIME last week learned that a memorandum drafted in August by GSA Special Counsel for Investigation Vincent Alto raises questions about Griffin's conduct at the GSA. The memo describes Griffin as trying in 1975 and 1976 to undermine the GSA's efforts to crack down on corruption and as harassing a GSA employee who would not go along...
According to the memo, Griffin tried to persuade Chief Investigator William Clinkscales to conduct "bootleg investigations" of which no official record was made. When Clinkscales refused, Alto's memo said, Griffin ordered that he be transferred to another job and demoted...
...retaliation, Griffin began a campaign of harassment against Petrillo; according to the memo Petrillo was subjected to "duress and coercion wrought by GSA experts from whom the KGB could learn valuable techniques." Over several months, Petrillo was stripped of his authority and warned that "his situation would get worse." In December 1976 he resigned again and filed a grievance with the Civil Service Commission...
...what the memo implies was an attempt to induce Petrillo to drop the case, Griffin next offered him a lower paying job in the GSA's Federal Supply Service. Petrillo took it but refused to cancel his complaint. Thereafter, the harassment of Petrillo increased. "Not a single piece of paper crossed my desk for eight months," he says. Finally, he asked to be transferred to a new job, even though his salary would be cut by $5,000. But when he was told that he would have to pay his own moving expenses, he decided not to take...
...Griffin angrily dismissed the allegations in Alto's memo as false. Said he: "I never pressured anybody. There was no effort by me to drive anybody out of any agency at any time." With the Carter Administration pressing for investigators to net some "bigger fish," and Republicans clamoring for an independent probe of the growing fraud and mismanagement scandal, the charges are certain to be thoroughly aired in the next round of Senate hearings on the GSA shenanigans that opens this week...