In each complaint, agents appeared to be trying to use "command influence," the power of senior leaders to sway junior officers, on First Command's behalf.
Gene Orza, the union's associate general counsel, sent a letter to agents last month as a result of "the growing chorus of complaints about agent solicitation practices".
He was looking into complaints about agents of Academy Life Insurance Company, at the time a prominent player in the military market.
"We received complaints that agents of some candidates were stuffing ballot boxes in polling stations, which is true," he said "They did.
But there have been complaints that agents lied about broadband speeds and download limits, and promised services that were not part of their packages.
According to the complaint, an agent for the Wizards spoke to Jackson about switching teams in April 2011, which prompted Moss to call the president of the Wizards, Todd Davis, to tell him the Ambassadors planned to pick up Jackson's option.
The jury did not consider, for example, the report's detailed list of episodes in which complaints against agents and companies were confirmed by military investigators and led to suspensions or other sanctions.
At the hearing, Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, wasn't buying his complaints that agents would not show homes to his clients, and seemed doubtful that it was a serious matter.
In a separate scheme, according to the complaint, the agent entered into a deal with William L. Haynes, a 42-year-old Palm City, Fla., resident and stock promoter, to have the hedge fund buy shares in Environmental Service, a home environmental inspection company.
A few months later, acting on complaints from agents, the equal opportunity agency declared that requiring an employee to sign away rights to keep a job amounted to "unlawful retaliation".
