R. Embroiled Dover Mortuary--A manager at the heart of a scandal at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary in Delaware, Quinton R. Keel, has resigned, an official familiar with the case said on Friday.
Air Force officials would say only that Mr. Keel, the former mortuary director, was no longer in his job, citing privacy rules that barred them from discussing the circumstances of his departure. But an official with knowledge of the situation said Mr. Keel had resigned after coming under increasing fire in recent months.
Mr. Keel, a civilian, was one of three top mortuary officials who knew that the Dover facility had lost body parts of two American service members but did nothing to correct sloppy practices, the Air Force said in an investigation released last fall.
Mr. Keel’s departure was reported by The Washington Post on its Web site on Friday morning.
The Air Force demoted Mr. Keel last year and moved him to a different job at Dover, as the manager of an assistance program that helps family members of Air Force personnel killed or wounded in the line of duty. It was from that job that Mr. Keel resigned.
Last fall, the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that handles whistle-blower complaints, said in its own investigation of the mortuary that Mr. Keel, along with the two other officials, should have been fired.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/quinton-r-keel-embroiled-in-dover-mortuary-scandal-leaves-his-job.html
Air Force officials would say only that Mr. Keel, the former mortuary director, was no longer in his job, citing privacy rules that barred them from discussing the circumstances of his departure. But an official with knowledge of the situation said Mr. Keel had resigned after coming under increasing fire in recent months.
Mr. Keel, a civilian, was one of three top mortuary officials who knew that the Dover facility had lost body parts of two American service members but did nothing to correct sloppy practices, the Air Force said in an investigation released last fall.
Mr. Keel’s departure was reported by The Washington Post on its Web site on Friday morning.
The Air Force demoted Mr. Keel last year and moved him to a different job at Dover, as the manager of an assistance program that helps family members of Air Force personnel killed or wounded in the line of duty. It was from that job that Mr. Keel resigned.
Last fall, the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that handles whistle-blower complaints, said in its own investigation of the mortuary that Mr. Keel, along with the two other officials, should have been fired.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/quinton-r-keel-embroiled-in-dover-mortuary-scandal-leaves-his-job.html
