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Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safety concerns
In June 2009, a Metrorail accident near Ft. Totten in Washington, DC, killed nine people. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report this summer that found Metro lacked a "safety culture." Now an internal Metro report finds the...
UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses
My client Dr. David Lewis has written an essay about a disappointing outcome of his qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. It is called "UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses." If you want to read more, I recommend another piece he wrote called,...
PBS’ Point-of-View to show documentary on Daniel Ellsberg
Next Tuesday, October 5, at 9:00 p.m., many public television stations will broadcast The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. It is a 90-minute documentary about Daniel Ellsberg's life, his education and rise in the...
NWC files brief arguing that SOX protects disclosures to the media
On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) can protect corporate whistleblowers who make disclosures through the media. We filed the brief with the...
GAO Questions the Effectiveness of Labor Department’s Whistleblower Protection Program
The report indicates that OSHA, created to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for employees, is not doing enough to protect whistleblowers from retaliatory action by their employers.
MSPB to hear first oral argument in 27 years
The public is welcome to attend the hearing at 10:00 am at the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Room 201, 717 Madison Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. For those who cannot attend, recordings of the oral arguments...
Sentencing delayed again for former head of OSC
Former Special Counsel Scott Bloch pled guilty earlier this year to one count of criminal contempt of Congress. He was due to be sentenced on Wednesday, but it was delayed so that the magistrate judge can decide whether there is...
Seattle Teacher Released After Revealing School’s Misues of Funds
Sean Taeschner, a former seventh grade teacher at the St. Paul School in Seattle, WA, claims he was fired after revealing that the Catholic school wrongfully utilized $200,000 in corporate matching funds.
State Department gives no mention of whistleblowers to UN
Last April, I submitted a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.S. State Department about how U.S. law fails to give whistleblowers customary remedies for their retaliation claims. My report listed the international treaties...
New York court orders reinstatement of whistleblower
A New York State appellate court has ordered the New York City Department of Transportation to reinstate whistleblower John Tipaldo. When Tipaldo reported that his superiors violated bidding rules, we was demoted from his position as Acting Assistant Commissioner for Planning....
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