Secret Service may face more sanctions in racism case

A government lawyer urged a federal judge Thursday not to impose a severe sanction on the Secret Service, despite the agency's repeated delays in producing evidence in a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination.

Robinson has already sanctioned the agency three times for missing deadlines and failing to comply with her orders to provide documents for the lawsuit, brought by 10 African-American Secret Service agents and former agents who charge they were subjected to a culture of racism and passed over for promotions.

In pre-trial testimony, agents have admitted that some relevant evidence in the case had been put into a burn bag and destroyed.

And two years after the discovery phase began, the government only recently produced 10 racist e-mails, including one with a joke about lynching, which circulated among senior officials.

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