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The Project on Government Oversight’s (POGO) Nick Schwellenbach provides the story of former Air Force Reservist, Gene McCarty, and his troubles after blowing the whistle on corruption within his unit. Read the article
Despite GAO’s success over the years in stemming fraud, wast and abuse in government, the Congress wants to cut their budget. Are they trying to kill the messenger? Dina Rasor’s article exposes this effort by Congress to cut back GAO at a time when we need them the most. Read the article
A recent article by the Government Accountability Project compared the travails of the heroine in the movie “The Whistleblower” with real life whistleblowing in that it accurately portrays the various stages a whistleblower goes through. Read the Article
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp, an Arizona-based contractor for the Department of Defense TriCare program, a healthcare program for military veterans and their families, agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims by former employees they filed false inflated claims to the U.S. government. Read the article
Whenever a federal whsitleblower reports wrongdoing, he or she is put a risk with little actual protections. A recent blog on FederalTimes.com does a good job in laying out the problems faced by federal employees when they decide to blow the whistle. Read the article
A recent Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals decision clarified an issue that a relator only need to show the act of seeking reimbursement from the government implies a company, provider, contractor, certified its compliance with all federal rules and regulations. Read the article
In the federal world of being fired because of whistleblowing, the so-called Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) does not have a sterling record of siding with the claimant. TSA whistleblower, Robert MacLean recently found this out. MacLean, a former federal air marshal, blew the whistle on his agency for attempting to impose a serious cut…
The federal government is at it again. Robert MacLean, a former federal air marshal, was fired for leaking information to the media that the TSA was cutting back air marshal coverage. The government’s war against whistleblowers continue unabated in it’s attempts to keep it’s dirty laundry away from public eyes and ears. This is not…
Leo Bosner was a FEMA official for almost 30 years and has seen all the ups and downs of the embattled agency. He discusses the development and performance of the agency from its beginnings in 1979 until his retirement in 2008 in a four-part article written for Truthout.org. In Part One, Leo provides his insights…
An Army soldier tried to blow the whistle on a plot to kill Afghan civilians, but found there was no standard operating procedure for doing so. The result, he said, was to participate in the plot, under pressure. He later was given a reduced sentence for a lessor included offense for testifying against the other…
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