by Steve Baker at Blaze media
Policy violations that ordinarily would lead to firings instead resulted in promotions for officers responsible for protecting top congressional leadership.
Corruption is endemic at the highest levels of the United States Capitol Police, especially among the special agents and officers who serve in the department’s dignitary protection detail, a Blaze Media investigation has found.
Internal discipline reports show a pattern of officers failing upward. Proven instances of fraud, forgery, theft, perjury, and drunk driving on duty going back to the late 1990s led to promotions rather than dismissals and prosecutions, discipline reports obtained by Blaze Media show.
High-ranking USCP officials, including a present-day deputy chief and an assistant chief, were implicated and faced discipline and possible termination in a fraudulent overtime pay scheme that defrauded the government of tens of thousands of dollars, according to documents obtained by Blaze Media and a former Capitol Police sergeant. A lieutenant involved in the scam left the Capitol Police and now works for the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms.
Suspensions for felonies
National Journal first reported on the overtime scheme in July 2014 but did not name the officers involved.
The National Journal story relied in part on the account of Rhoda Henderson,…
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