Whistleblower News From The Inside -- June 14, 2017
Posted 06/14/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
New FBI whistleblower protections could not have come at a better time -- “In the midst of the bedlam surrounding President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, a curious source has spoken out in Comey’s defense: Edward Snowden. . . . Whatever one’s personal inclinations towards Snowden and Comey, their common experience serves as a case study of the harmful...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
After a one-week trial in Lexington, Kentucky, a federal jury convicted clinical psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins on multiple fraud counts in connection with his role in a massive fraud against the Social Security Administration (SSA). According to the evidence presented at trial, Adkins and Kentucky lawyer Eric Christopher Conn submitted false medical documentation to the...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Trump targets financial watchdog agency -- "The Treasury Department said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be substantially stripped of its powers, accusing the agency of regulatory overreach and saying the president should be able to remove its director." 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On Saturday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the Senate that he would 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Goodwill Employee Expected Sympathy After He Saw Co-Worker Crushed. But He Was Fired -- Seven days after he saw his co-worker die, crushed by heavy equipment, Dave Goudie returned to work at the Goodwill Outlet on Franklin Boulevard. Goudie, a commercial driver, thought he was psychologically ready to resume his $16.50-an-hour job after a week of paid administrative leave. He...
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On Monday, Danielle Faux, a physical therapist from Connecticut, was sentenced to two years of probation, the first six months of which must be spent in home confinement, for obstruction and tax fraud offenses. Faux—whose name is French for “false”—separately settled a related civil matter in which she agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve allegations that she falsely...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
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