Oak Creek Native at Center of FBI Controversy

A lawsuit filed by a disabled veteran from Oak Creek is at the center of a controversy that resulted in the reassignment of the head of the FBI's Milwaukee office.

Justin Slaby, a disabled Army veteran and Oak Creek native whose hand was blown off in a training accident in Georgia, is suing the federal government because he claims he was denied a job as an agent because he is disabled, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Teresa Carlson, who had been special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office, was reassigned to FBI headquarters shortly after she refused to testify in the case, the newspaper said.

Carlson is under potential criminal investigation after she told an agent called to testify the Office of Inspector General that it would be in his best interest "to come down on the side of the government in this matter," the newspaper reported.

Slaby, 30, spent three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the summer of 2004, during a training accident, his left hand was destroyed by a grenade, according to FOX6 News.

FOX6 says the FBI hired him, despite his injury — and he to pass all physical exams with a prosthetic hand. Still, Slaby was kicked out of the FBI Academy, which prompted him to file the discrimination lawsuit.

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