It is a positive that the employees blew the whistle on these scumbags, though.
On edit - also a pretty good demonstration that firing Federal employees is not impossible at all, you just have to have your ducks in a row to do it. From talking to corporate people, it's probably a lot easier to fire a civil service employee for cause than a UAW or Teamster employee in heavy industry, you apparently can't get rid of those mf'ers until the union itself gets tired of them, no matter what they get caught doing.