PITTSBURGH -- The following is a transcript of a report by reporter Jim Parsons that first aired July 27, 2007, on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m.

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The lead FBI agent in the criminal investigation of former Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Cyril Wecht has gotten a promotion.

That might come as a surprise, considering the agent's disciplinary record at the FBI.

Federal law enforcement sources told Team 4 that special agent Bradley Orsini was promoted this week to supervisor.

Orsini will move from the bureau's Public Corruption Unit to head up a new administrative unit in the Pittsburgh field office.

It was two weeks ago that Orsini's checkered personnel file at the FBI was unsealed at federal court, revealing a five-day suspension in 1998 for signing other agents' names on evidence reports involving seized drugs and money.

In 2001, the FBI demoted Orsini, suspended him for 30 days without pay, placed him on 12 months probation and ordered him to undergo mandatory sensitivity training.

In that discipline report, the FBI found that Orsini, over the years, had failed to follow search guidelines, falsified official documents, engaged in an improper relationship with a female subordinate FBI agent whom he gave a pet collar as a gag Christmas gift, threatened physical assault of a subordinate and damaged government property by punching holes in walls and throwing chairs.

The discipline report also said Orsini "made unprofessional and insensitive remarks on numerous occasions concerning sexual orientation," including once with a bullhorn when he called on all homosexuals to come out of their offices.

Orsini stands to get a pay raise to go along with his promotion. As an agent, his salary cap is $99,000, but as a supervisory agent, Orsini can make up to $117,000 a year.

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