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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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