“I swear before God that I personally witnessed eight highly competent African American federal employees be denied promotions and assignments at the U.S. Department of Labor by Aung Htein that would enhance their careers. I was ordered to remain silent while a black woman was treated like a wild animal and herded into subservient jobs for many years because of the color of her skin.” John Stuart Edwards
This complaint alleges that former Department of Labor executive John Stuart Edwards received direct orders from his supervisor Aung Htein to actively discriminate against eight African Americans in the federal government that worked directly for him, and that John Stuart Edwards was retaliated against – fired from his executive job – within days of refusing to execute those unlawful orders. This case proves that the entire system of racial equity at the U.S. Department of Labor is a farce.
Case Summary
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board Docket Number
DC-1221-16-0227-W-1 / John S. Edwards v. Department of Labor
The United States Department of Labor is arguing that white people who report discrimination carried out by others against African Americans are not protected from retaliation under federal Whistleblower Protection or Anti-Discrimination laws.
In 2015, John Stuart Edwards worked at the U.S. Department of Labor for Aung Htein, a Burmese immigrant, who systemically carried out racial discrimination for many years against African Americans; and John Stuart Edwards was retaliated against by Aung Htein, his superiors and the entire Civil Rights establishment at the Department of Labor for blowing the whistle to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) office. Their collective vengeance against John Stuart Edwards and his family was swift, coordinated, destructive and has followed them each year since 2015, and now three administrations.
Instead of firing Aung Htein for violating discrimination laws, John Stuart Edwards was fired for reporting Aung Htein’s misconduct to authorities. After firing John Stuart Edwards, Aung Htein not only continued to be employed, he has been rewarded handsomely with bribes including skyrocketing pay raises, promotions and bonus payments to attend school.
Aung Htein (born 1978) is a career federal government bureaucrat whose taxpayer funded salary has skyrocketed despite continuous freezes on federal government pay. Mr. Htein’s government salary has somehow miraculously grown from $115,000 in 2011, to over $183,000 per year today. That is a 60 percent pay raise at a time when there was supposed to be no federal pay increases at all. But it gets even worse.
In early 2017, Aung Htein was “mysteriously” promoted into the high paying ranks of the Senior Executive Service in the federal government – despite racial discrimination and whistleblower retaliation complaints made against him that are still pending before the courts (2021).
That’s right. Aung Htein should have been fired. Instead, he was very generously compensated for keeping his mouth closed by the Obama/Biden administration, the Trump/Pence administration, and now the Biden/Harris administration. This Whistleblower retaliation case is still awaiting action by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board which has lacked a quorum since President Trump took office in 2017.
The September 2015 Complaint Against
Aung Htein
U.S. Department of Labor
Allegations: Systemic discrimination against eight African American employees and retaliation for blowing the whistle to the entire U.S. Department of Labor leadership including the Inspector General.
Charge 1: Aung Htein and senior executives engaged in, and condoned racial discrimination to deny opportunities and career advancement for eight African American employees in the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Information Systems and Technology. The following employees are current active targets of systemic discrimination by senior management officials that have or will directly impact the careers and earnings of these employees:
GS13 – Mr. McDaniel, an African American federal employee is being discriminated against because he is being denied a merit promotion solely due to his race. Mr. McDaniel applied for an advertised GS14 position to perform the work he is already performing at that level – and when Mr. McDaniel was found to be the only eligible qualified candidate and placed on the hiring certificate for the hiring official – Aung Htein placed an indefinite delay on hiring Mr. McDaniel for the position but has allowed the hiring of other vacant positions in the office, despite strong recommendations from the hiring officials including Mr. McDaniel’s supervisor Thomas Flagg (also African American), the reviewing officer, and the Deputy Director. At the time of the complaint, there was no indication whatsoever that Mr. McDaniel will ever have the opportunity to fill the position for which he is qualified. Mr. McDaniel stated that he feared retaliation if he filed an EEO complaint.
GS13 – Mr. Liddell, an African American federal employee is actively being targeted by Aung Htein for removal from federal service despite the fact that Mr. Liddell is performing his work in a highly successful manner. This fact was corroborated by the senior GS15 technologists he supports, and his reviewing officer. Mr. Liddell’s wife has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Mr. Liddell has requested occasional time off to transport his wife to treatments. Mr. Htein stated that he considers these types of requests to be unsatisfactory and inappropriate. Mr. Liddell’s supervisor, Freddie Sconce, stated in writing that he is acting to remove Mr. Liddell from federal employment based on his race on the orders provided to him by Aung Htein. Sconce stated that he disagreed with Mr. Htein’s decision, but will carry out the orders despite his personal objections. Sconce, who was a GS-14, has applied for a GS-15 promotion and Aung Htein is now the deciding official for that promotion after the revocation of my personnel decision authority by Aung Htein on September 15, 2015.
In addition to the above active targets of discrimination, I uncovered a clear pattern of ongoing systemic discrimination that has been carried out for many years against only African Americans that were contained in my formal complaint and court documents. The following employees were also discriminated against and in some cases maliciously targeted and abused.
Ms. Marlene Howze
Ms. Florence Davidson
Mr. Thomas Flagg
Mr. Kevin Jackson
Mr. Dwayne Palmer
Mr. Nat Brown
Charge 2: Aung Htein retaliated against John Stuart Edwards on September 15, 2015, when he removed his authority to manage personnel for reporting systemic discrimination to his superiors at the U.S. Department of Labor.
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board Docket Number
DC-1221-16-0227-W-1 / John S. Edwards v. Department of Labor
THIS CASE AWAITING QUORUM AT MSPB
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