The Washington Post, August 3rd, 2005
They are playing hardball with employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. On June 2, local police handcuffed and arrested a patent examiner at the agency's offices in Alexandria, charging the federal employee with a felony for allegedly falsifying his time card to the tune of more than $200. The case is one of several recently in which agency employees have been arrested on the job for offenses such as defrauding the government, theft from other employees and criminal activities unrelated to their work at the agency. Ronald J. Stern, president of the Patent Office Professionals, a unio...
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