Space Force official kept job after IG investigated sex toys at work
‘Brilliant’ director of pentagon space office often acted ‘like a 13-year-old boy,’ co-workers said
Around the time he became director of the Pentagon’s Space Security and Defense Program in 2013, Andrew Cox received a framed pair of tight, silver pants as a gag gift. He hung the glittery jeans behind his office door with a note: “Break here in the event of an emergency.”
He occasionally joked that the pants could seduce Washington officials into giving SSDP more funding.
At a workplace holiday party a few years later, Cox received a silver case filled with sex toys and other paraphernalia. And in 2018, the high-ranking civilian donned a “mankini” — over his clothes — that he was given at the office’s “Bad Santa” party, in front of several dozen SSDP employees and their families.
The mankini made at least one other appearance at the office.
“It was chartreuse green, and he brought it out into the main area,” one person said of the strappy, skimpy bathing suit popularized by the 2006 film “Borat.” “He [told us he] put it on in front of his wife and bent over and said, ‘Honey, how do you like this?’”