Domestic Abuse and FBI Agents

[Fightingscottish]

Origionally Posted on SF Board:

My wife was previously married to a man who was physically abusive. This man is now calling her and saying that he is applying for a job as an FBI agent. He has made several attmepts to get her social security number from her as well as her date of birth, which she refused to give.
The question is a two- parter:
1) If the FBI really needed to contact her, couldn't they find her without him providing that info? I mean, it's not like our phone number is unlisted, because he was able to find us.

2) If the FBI DOES contact her, and she tells them about what happened when they were married (it was pretty bad, and she has witnesses, etc), that he was physically abusive, what are his chances of getting the clearances to be an FBI agent? The idea of this guy being a federal law enforcement officer scares her to death.

And no, the cops were nerver called on this guy. No police reports.

[MADMIK]

Your wife should call the number at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/newhotline.htm

BTW, there is a new law (2-3 years ago) that any federal law enforcement agents and military personnel convicted/charged with domestic violence will have his weapon take away and/or lost his job. Imagine a pilot cannot fly his beloved F-14.
So if she filed a restraining order, he will be rejected. Also document, document, and document the calls, etc.

[grrlcop74]

As FLTCREW pointed out on the other board, you're wrong yet again Mike. Imagine that.

Kristen

[MADMIK]

http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/May1999/a19990528domvio.html
and http://usmilitary.about.com/careers/usmilitary/library/milinfo/milarticles/bldomesticviolence.htm (at the last 2nd paragraph)

Originally posted by grrlcop74:
As FLTCREW pointed out on the other board, you're wrong yet again Mike. Imagine that.

Kristen

[grrlcop74]

See my reply on the SF board, princess. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Start squinting when you read and maybe you'll get to the fine print.

Kristen

[RougeWarrior]

Yes, there is a major difference in being charged and being convicted.

Not to offend you, but just in case you are ignorant of the facts, a conviction means you have been found guilty by a judge or jury of your peers.

BTW, even if this person has committed an act of domestic violence, and weather or not he was convicted, charged, or whatever, if all this happened before the law was enacted, it is ex post facto. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on the ex post facto, I'm rusty on my law, and still two years away from law school)

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