2016 Whistleblower Of The Year Goes To . . . Flint Whistleblower LeAnne Walters
Posted 05/15/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The votes are in, and Whistleblower Insider’s 2016 Whistleblower of the Year is LeeAnne Walters, who has worked tirelessly to draw attention to the public-health crisis concerning contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan. When city and state officials switched Flint’s water source, it didn’t take long for Walters to realize that something was wrong. Her twin boys...
By Leah Judge
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By Ronny Valdes
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features the Roger Ailes sexual harassment whistleblowers, who collectively are one of our candidates for 2016 Whistleblower of the Year. They are a group of more than twenty accusers that alleged sexual harassment or misconduct against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes. The two most prominent accusers are former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson and current Fox News...
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Well the votes are in and tallied and Whistleblower Insider's 2015 Whistleblower of the Year winner is Perdue chicken farmer Craig Watts. He is one of the 30,000 contract farmers in the U.S. who work with the handful of Big-Ag poultry producers, like Perdue Farms, that control what goes into the vast majority of chickens we eat. They also dictate how these chickens are...
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By Jason Enzler
This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features the Veterans Affairs whistleblowers, one of our candidates for 2015 Whistleblower of the Year. They are a (continually growing) group of healthcare providers, administrative employees, and other insiders at the VA Department who have come forward to identify the horrendous treatment of our veterans at the hospitals that are supposed to take care of them. ...
By Ari Yampolsky
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