LOGAN COUNTY — An Illinois Department of Corrections Internal Security Investigator who was terminated earlier this year has been hired back by the agency.

According to Lindsey N. Hess, public information officer for IDOC, Jeffrey Gabor will return to working for IDOC on December 18, 2017.

In 2014, an Illinois Department of Corrections internal investigation was launched into a corrections officer at Logan Correctional Center.

According to investigation reports, Gabor was assigned to the case involving a male correctional officer alleged to have had an affair with a female inmate at Logan Correctional Center.

During his investigation, Gabor reported interviewing the officer’s wife on multiple occasions and in 2015 the officer, who had since resigned from IDOC, was charged in Logan County court with two counts felony custodial sexual misconduct.

The case against the officer was dismissed in September 2016 when the Logan County state’s attorney found that Gabor was allegedly having an affair with the officer’s wife while conducting the investigation into her husband.

Just one month earlier, a separate criminal investigation was launched into Gabor for alleged official misconduct.

IDOC reports indicate that during the investigation into the Logan correctional officer, not only had Gabor allegedly started an affair with the officer’s wife, but text messages showed he intended to falsely claim the affair started after the investigation.

The investigation into Gabor also said he had threatened the pregnant female parolee with being sent back to prison and losing her child if she didn’t provide false statements against the former correctional officer in the earlier case.

On February 18, Gabor was officially discharged from the Illinois Department of Corrections. According to IDOC, he was officially employed with the agency from October 27, 2003, until January 23, 2017. It’s unclear at this time in what capacity he will be returning to IDOC.

It’s also unclear if Gabor will face criminal prosecution or if his alleged actions could compromise other cases on which he was an investigator.