Female FBI agent's career stalled out after rebuffing male coworker's drunken advances, lawsuit says [View all]

Source: The Independent

Saturday 20 June 2026 08:42 EDT


A female FBI agent is suing the Department of Justice over claims her fledgling career stalled out after she rebuffed a senior male agent’s romantic overtures, according to a federal lawsuit reviewed by The Independent.

The rookie agent, who was assigned to the bureau’s San Francisco field office and is anonymized in court filings as “Jane Doe,” says in her complaint that the senior agent fed her alcohol during an out-of-town conference, pressured her to send him nude photos and ultimately “engaged in inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature” while she was so intoxicated, she has no memory or recollection of it.

After Doe reported the situation to higher-ups, the senior agent immediately began to “marginalize, sideline, exclude and isolate [her] from normal workplace activities,” the complaint states. It alleges he no longer looped her in on “critical updates, meetings and interviews related to assigned cases,” and spread false rumors that she was sleeping with a married supervisor.

But when Doe further escalated her concerns to management, the complaint says her boss told her that the bureau was “not going to act on [her] allegations, that there would be no investigative action and that the case was closed.”. Doe was then reassigned to a newly created, unstaffed unit, a significant downgrade for her, the complaint goes on. “The transfer effectively stripped [Doe] of her existing cases, a professional setback that stunted her advancement, and there were no equivalent new assignments on her new squad,” according to the complaint.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/fbi-female-agent-workplace-harassment-drunk-male-coworker-b2999342.html