Karl L. Schultz
Coast Guard commandant 2018-22; personally chose to keep the Fouled Anchor academy sexual-assault report from Congress
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard· United States · in the record since Dec 2024
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Adm. Karl Schultz was Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard from 2018 to 2022.
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- USCG Staff Update for Members (Dec. 12, 2024)Documentwitness list
Admiral Karl Schultz (Ret.), Former Commandant of the USCG (2018 to 2022)
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Congressional investigators found, and Schultz admitted, that he personally decided in fall 2018 to withhold the Operation Fouled Anchor report from Congress.
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Committees in the House and Senate released investigative reports within a week of each other that found Schultz made the decision in fall 2018 and retired Adm. Charles Ray, then his deputy, evaluated the choice in a handwritten pros and cons list.
- USCG Staff Update for Members (Dec. 12, 2024)Document
Former Commandant Karl Schultz admitted in a transcribed interview that he personally made the decision to withhold Operation Fouled Anchor from Congress. Schultz stated: “That was a decision by me to not make a notification. I own that exclusively, not Admiral Ray, not others. That is my decision.”