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  Former BOP Director Fingered in Sex Scandal
  Loaded on June 15, 2000
  
  
    
      published in Prison Legal News
      June, 2000, page 20
    
  
  
  
  
    
      
    
    
      
        In 1992 Bureau of Prisons (BOP) em- ployee Steven McPeek quietly settled a sexual harassment complaint he leveled against then-BOP director J. Michael Quinlan, according to recently filed court papers. McPeek alleged in his 1992 complaint that Quinlan made sexual advances beginning in August 1990 while they traveled together on ...
    
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