Removal for Credit Card Misuse Upheld

The Fedmanager blog (operated by the law firm of Shaw, Bransford, Veilleux & Roth, P.C. has a summary of Hickman v. USPS, a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the termination of a Postal Service manager who was guilty not merely of improper use of a credit card, but repeated failure to pay the bill, failure to schedule a supervisor (thus leaving a postal facility unattended), and improper alteration of time records. The appellant's managerial status was an aggravating factor that outweighed the lack of a previous record and other mitigating factors.