FEMA official harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency...
Source: The Washington Post
FEMA official harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency chief says
By Lisa Rein
July 30 at 4:04 PM
The personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — who resigned just weeks ago — is under investigation after being accused of creating an atmosphere of widespread sexual harassment over years in which women were hired as possible sexual partners for male employees, the agency’s leader said Monday.
The alleged harassment and other misconduct, revealed through a preliminary seven-month internal investigation, was a “systemic problem going on for years,” said FEMA Administrator William “Brock” Long. Some of the behavior could rise to the level of criminal activity, he said.
Some of the claims about the agency’s former personnel chief are detailed in a written executive summary of the investigation provided to The Washington Post. FEMA officials provided other details and confirmed that the individual under investigation, whose name was redacted from the report, is Corey Coleman, who led the personnel department from 2011 until his resignation in June.
Coleman could not immediately be reached for comment, and no one answered the door at his Northeast Washington home when a Washington Post reporter visited Monday. Coleman resigned June 18, before a scheduled interview with investigators, and FEMA officials said they have not been able to question him since.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fema-official-harassed-women-hired-some-as-possible-sexual-partners-for-male-employees-agency-chief-says/2018/07/30/964da518-9403-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html
Coleman was hired at FEMA in 2011 as deputy personnel chief from the U.S. Secret Service, where he was chief human resources officer for the information technology department.
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