UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) The F-B-I says former Milwaukee office chief Teresa Carlson has retired. The Journal Sentinel said the 50-year-old Carlson was actually fired and was escorted out of the F-B-I’s Washington headquarters in October. That was after reports surfaced that Carlson discouraged agent Mark Crider to commit perjury in a 2013 discrimination case — and then reportedly lied about it to investigators and federal prosecutors.
The Journal Sentinel said the F-B-I sent an e-mail to its employees last week, which gave details of all its disciplinary cases over the previous three months. The report did not list Carlson by name. But a report last fall from the Justice Department’s inspector general confirmed that Carlson urged to Crider to give inaccurate testimony against wounded Army Ranger Justin Slaby’s attempts to become an F-B-I agent. Crider refused to commit perjury, and Slaby won his case.
An F-B-I spokesman said last week’s e-mail was for employees’ eyes only — and all he could confirm was that Carlson retired. She’ll get full federal benefits, since she’s at least 50 and had served 20 years with the investigative agency.
