Reader “tripwire” posed a few questions about Cory Voorhis in a comment to the first part of my investigative report (Part 1 and Part 2) into corruption in the Denver ICE office where Voorhis worked.  Cory agreed to respond to the questions, and I’ve decided that the answers are better posted here in a separate blog note than as a comment where they might not be seen by as many.

The questions were as follows:

1. What job has he worked since this all went south for him?
2. Why does he even want to go back to being a government worker again?
3. Will he get back pay for the time he has not worked if he is re-instated?

And Cory’s answers:

1. I don’t want to disclse my current employment.  Suffice it to say that I am severly underemployed.  It is a very competitive job market right now and ICE removed me under the trumped up “lack of candor” charges that effectively eliminate any possibility for me to return to Law Enforement work while that dark cloud lingers over me.  ICE knows that and that is why they did that.

[Note from Ross: This fact makes the way ICE is insulating other senior agents all the more reprehensible, since Cory has offered nothing but candor during this whole saga while his “superiors” at ICE have all lied or deceived repeatedly.]

2.  I have invested more than 19 years of my life in the service of the federal government.  17 ofthose years have been in 6C Covered Fedeal Law Enforcement where an individual is entitled to the “special” 6C Law Enforcement retirement with 20 years of service at age 50 or at any age after 25 years of service.  Under those rules, I would be retirement eligible at the age of 48.

I will not simply abandon all of that.  They are attempting to steal my retirement eligibility at a time wen I am extremely close to securing that benefit.

3.  I would receive back pay if the judge were to rule in my favor in the case.  I would also be eligible to receive 3X the back pay (actual damages) if the judge were to rule favorably of my whistleblower retaliation claim (Under the 2002 No Fear Act) which he already arbitrarily denied without first heaing argument or taking testimony on the matter.  I intend to appeal that decision.