Opinion ID: 4512195
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Heading: OSC Complaint

Text: On July 18, 2018, Keys filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel (“OSC”), claiming that his reassignment was a reprisal for his whistleblowing activities. S.A. 30– 36. Keys alleged that Mr. Bregón was the agency official who made the reassignment decision, and that Mr. Bregón was aware of Keys’ whistleblowing activities because he “found out from the Office of General Counsel.” Keys I, 2019 MSPB LEXIS 3462, at . Keys relied on the agency document that he received from the EEO litigation and alleged that the document demonstrated that the agency had no actual vacancy at the time of his reassignment. Id. at –4. On November 16, 2018, OSC notified Keys via letter that it was closing its investigation into his complaint. S.A. 69. OSC characterized Keys’ complaint as follows: You reported in February 2015, the agency reas- signed you to a new position and new location. In 2017, you learned that [the] agency had no vacant position into which you could have been reas- signed. On March 21, 2015, you resigned rather than take the reassignment. You contend that the assignment coerced your resignation in retaliation for your disclosures about agency officials lying in litigation. S.A. 69. OSC notified Keys that he could seek corrective action from the Board under 5 U.S.C. §§ 1214(a)(3) and 1221 for any personnel action taken against him because of a protected disclosure or activity that was the subject of his OSC complaint. Id.