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ABC NewsReport: U.S. Marshals Lawyer Worked Part Time for Fox, Arranged TransportationA then-U.S. Marshals employee misused taxpayer dollars while working as a Fox Sports statistician by arranging the use of the service's vehicles and resources to transport network commentators including Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Troy Aikman, according to a new inspector general report on the matter.
The Marshals Service is best known for tracking down fugitives and providing judicial security. The Justice Department inspector general reviewed allegations that Joseph Band, a former attorney in the Marshals Service office of general counsel, arranged for U.S. marshals to transport celebrities from Fox Sports to and from sporting events on more than five occasions.
The investigation was opened after an anonymous tip that deputy U.S. marshals had transported Fox Sports commentators Buck and McCarver from Fenway Park as part of a detail reportedly arranged by Band and acting U.S. marshal Yvonne Bonner.
Bonner had authorized two deputies to assist Band while he was working part time as a statistician for Fox Sports while at the World Series in Boston, the report said. Although the deputies were removed from the press box area by a Red Sox official after Game 1 of the World Series, two deputies escorted McCarver's limousine from Fenway Park to the Four Seasons hotel with "their emergency lights on as they were attempting to work their way out of the immediate area of Fenway Park," according to the report.
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