#Senior US Marshals accused of having sex at Virginia headquarters: documents

A high-ranking US Marshal allegedly had a tryst with a colleague at the agency’s Virginia headquarters — and it may have been caught on video, according to documents obtained by The Post.

The alleged at-work rendezvous between the two “senior”-ranking marshals occurred over the summer and details of it emerged in a Freedom of Information Act request sent to the Marshals Service by the Federal Managers Association.

“The more specific recent activity we seek documentation on involves serious allegations of sexual misconduct by two agency employees within the senior ranks, purportedly at the Agency’s headquarters complex (i.e. in taxpayer funded office space), that may have occurred on official time,” states the letter, referring to the Marshals headquarters in Arlington, Va.

The FMA, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of federal employees, including US Marshals, also requested “any video or audio depiction” that the Marshals may have of the alleged sexual encounter.

“If recorded outside an office we are informed frosted glass walls would not identify the employees, negating privacy concerns,” says the group’s letter, which was obtained The Post.

The FMA said it’s looking to suss out whether the federal agency was fair in disciplining executives within the Marshals Service compared to rank-and-file employees, according to the documents.    

“A high number of managers across the workforce have raised as a concern the evenhandedness with which the Agency applies discipline between executives and rank and file. This particular case is being cited as an example where it may not be occurring,” representatives from the FMA wrote in the Sept. 28 request, which was later acknowledged by the agency. 

The alleged sexual encounter from June or July involved two senior-level workers — one of whom was considered a “lower-grade employee.” Neither was named in the documents.

The FMA is also seeking information on how one of the senior employees was granted “extended special leave” — and whether it was OKed after the alleged sexual encounter. 

“We are most interested in understanding if the approval pre-dated the employee’s alleged sexual activity with who we understand to be a lower-grade employee also assigned to the headquarters complex,” the FMA reps wrote. 

In a subsequent letter to the Marshals Service, the FMA said they obtained information that the lovers in the alleged headquarters romp also traveled together on a work trip to an agency office in Louisiana — and opted to book a hotel room instead of staying onsite.

“We are informed employees traveling to the … facility more often lodge onsite. In this instance we are informed the two employees instead increased costs to the taxpayers by lodging offsite in a hotel,” the FMA representative wrote on Thursday.

Marshals spokesperson Drew Wade wouldn’t comment on the specific allegations.

“As a federal law enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals Service demands high standards of personal conduct from our employees,” Wade wrote in an email. “We take seriously any allegation of misconduct by our personnel.

“As a matter of policy, USMS does not discuss personnel matters. However, all credible allegations are investigated and appropriate disciplinary actions are taken, if warranted.”

In 2017, a senior US Marshal in Boston admitted to having sex with nine women in offices controlled by the agency after initially lying to investigators and asking the women not to cooperate with authorities. 

The marshal was not named in a DOJ Inspector General report, but several sources identified him to the Boston Globe as Jon Murray — the chief deputy marshal in Massachusetts from 2011 until late 2015.