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Whistleblower Retaliation and Cover-Ups at the Bureau of Prisons
A February 6 Associated Press investigation uncovered horrific violence against women at a federal correctional institution in Dublin, California. AP News obtained federal Bureau of Prisons documents and court records, and conducted interviews with “current and former prison employees and...
Texas Attorney General Whistleblowers Speak Out Against Recent Comments
In November of 2020, four whistleblowers who worked for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit alleging whistleblower retaliation after raising concerns of alleged misconduct in the office. The group of whistleblowers are speaking out again about recent comments...
Advocacy Groups Demand Senate Vote on MSPB Nominees
Whistleblower advocates continue to pressure the U.S. Senate to vote on nominees for the Merit System Protections Board (MSPB). On February 15, a collection of close to one hundred civil society organizations, including Whistleblower Network News, sent a letter to...
Former MSPB Member Predicts Case Backlog Will Take 5 Years to Resolve
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the quasi-judicial agency tasked with ruling on federal employee whistleblower retaliation cases, has lacked a quorum for over 5 years. Because the Board has been unable to issue any final rulings since losing a...
U.S. Treasury Whistleblower Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards Released from Prison
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, whose disclosures about Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury made up much of the FinCEN Files, a project that illuminated global corruption around the world, was sentenced to six months in...
DoD OIG Releases FY 2021 Whistleblower Program Data
On January 19, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Agency Financial Report, which contains information about the DoD OIG’s work and budget throughout the fiscal year. The document reports...
Department of Interior Pays $100,000 to Whistleblower
On January 18, Government Accountability Project (GAP) announced that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) recently paid $100,000 to a whistleblower to settle allegations of retaliation by Trump administration officials. The whistleblower, who is remaining anonymous, was “among the...
MSPB’s Lack of Quorum Passes Five Year Mark; Advocates Demand Vote on Nominees
Since January 8, 2017, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has lacked a quorum. During this unprecedentedly long stretch without a quorum, the MSPB has been unable to issue final rulings on thousands of federal employment cases, including whistleblower...
DOJ and USDA Commit to Protecting Agricultural Antitrust Whistleblowers
On January 3, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke at a White House event focused on competition in agriculture. Garland and Vilsack expressed the shared commitment of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department...
Senate Whistleblower Report Details Aviation Safety Concerns
On December 13, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released a report detailing allegations made by seven whistleblowers from within the aerospace industry. The whistleblowers, who include a Boeing senior engineer and a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
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