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2015 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate -- Hanford Whistleblower Dr. Walter Tamosaitis

Posted  12/21/15
By Marlene Koury This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Hanford whistleblower Dr. Walter Tamosaitis, one of our candidates for 2015 Whistleblower of the Year.  Dr. Tamosaitis blew the whistle on shaky clean up plans at Hanford nuclear site in Washington.  He was designing a way to immobilize millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive liquid waste when he discovered the Energy Department’s plans to treat the...

Whistleblower Spotlight -- Hanford Whistleblower Dr. Walter Tamosaitis

Posted  08/13/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Whistleblower Spotlight features Hanford whistleblower Dr. Walter Tamosaitis, who blew the whistle on shaky clean up plans at Hanford nuclear site in Washington.  Dr. Tamosaitis was designing a way to immobilize millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive liquid waste when he discovered the Energy Department’s plans to treat the waste were extremely unsafe.  He...

Will Idaho Be the End of Ag-Gag?

Posted  08/6/15
By Molly Knobler and Gordon Schnell Animal rights activists don’t get many legal wins, but this is a big one.  On Tuesday in a 28-page, carefully reasoned opinion that pulled no punches, Chief Judge for the District of Idaho Lynn Winmill found Idaho’s “Ag-Gag” law unconstitutional under both the Free Speech and Equal Protection clauses.  This was the law specifically aimed at criminalizing whistleblowers...

Congress to the USDA: “It’s GIPSA’s Time to Shine”

Posted  07/30/15
In a town of acronyms, who doesn’t love the Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (“GIPSA”)?  GIPSA is the agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) tasked with overseeing livestock, poultry, meat and other agricultural markets.  In particular, the agency is responsible for promoting fair business practices within the meat production markets, but for years it has been...

Food Integrity Campaign's Petition Against High-Speed Hog Processing

Posted  03/5/15
By Marlene Koury The Food Integrity Campaign ("FIC") is pushing to stop Hormel from its practice of high-speed hog processing without a proper safety inspection process in place.  Hormel owns three out of five hog plants currently participating in a controversial pilot program that increases line speeds and deregulates meat inspection by shifting authority from government inspectors to industry to monitor food...

The Mad Science of Animal Experiments for Cheaper Meat Production

Posted  01/22/15
By Marlene Koury The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in southern Nebraska devotes itself to scientific experiments on animals aimed at reducing the cost and increasing the production of meat. Whistleblower James Keen, a scientist and veterinarian who worked at the center for 24 years, blew the whistle on the center’s appalling practices by taking his story to the New York Times.  The New York Times conducted an...

Top-20 False Claims Act and DOJ Fraud Settlements for 2014

Posted  01/5/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Here is our look-back at the top-20 False Claims Act and other DOJ fraud settlements for 2014. 20.  OtisMed Corp. -- The medical products manufacturer and its former CEO agreed to pay more than $80 million for distributing knee replacement surgery cutting guides (called the OtisKnee) after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had rejected their application for marketing...

DOJ Declares Record Year for Fraud Recoveries with a Notable Nod to Whistleblowers

Posted  11/20/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Yesterday, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder -- perhaps in one of his final swan songs as the country's top fraud cop -- trumpeted the $24.7 billion in civil and criminal fines the Department of Justice brought home this fiscal year (ending Sept. 30, 2014).  See DOJ Press Release.  It is more than three times the $8 billion DOJ recovered in 2013.  It also represents close...

DOJ Catch of the Week – Hyundai and Kia

Posted  11/7/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to South Korea's top two automakers Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation.  On Monday, the two companies agreed to pay a $100 million civil penalty to settle charges they violated the Clean Air Act by selling more than one million vehicles that will emit roughly 4.75 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in...

Whistleblower Spotlight – Climate Change Whistleblower Rick Piltz

Posted  10/29/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" falls on Rick Piltz, former climate policy analyst in the George W. Bush Administration.  He is the whistleblower who exposed a White House putting politics before science by distorting scientific findings on global warming.  His release of internal government documents showing a White House behaving badly led to the immediate ousting of...