Gregory Heimann, 51, of Princeton, had doctors convinced for more than a decade that he could not walk and staged his drowning after federal agents confronted him with the evidence, court records show.
The school department did not identify the staff member, say where the person works within the school district or disclose what caused the investigation.
Repealing the law tucked years ago into the U.S. defense budget could prevent soldiers from killing themselves and others, a Pentagon committee found in February.