At Constantine Cannon, we believe that whistleblowers matter. Whistleblowers are brave people who can’t stay silent. They stand up for what is right, and they make a difference. On this page, we share stories about the importance of whistleblowers, and about whistleblowers who inspire us.
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By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Here is Part I of our interview with Interior Department whistleblower Joel Clement. Mr. Clement is a former federal executive and public lands policy expert with a background in climate and energy. After publicly disclosing how climate change affects Alaska Native communities, Mr. Clement was reassigned to an accounting position for which he had no experience. Believing he was...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Here is Part II of our interview with Whistleblower Insider’s 2016 Whistleblower of the Year winner — LeeAnne Walters. After seeing her own children poisoned by the lead in Flint’s water, Walters decided she had to take a stand. Since then, Ms. Walters has worked tirelessly to draw attention to the public-health crisis in Flint. Here is how Ms. Walters details...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Here is Part I of our interview with Whistleblower Insider’s 2016 Whistleblower of the Year winner — LeeAnne Walters. After seeing her own children poisoned by the lead in Flint’s water, Walters decided she had to take a stand. Since then, Ms. Walters has worked tirelessly to draw attention to the public-health crisis in Flint. Here is how Ms. Walters details...
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...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Tony Menendez, the former accounting executive at Halliburton who the company publicly "outed" after he complained to the SEC about what he saw as the company's multi-billion dollar accounting transgressions. An in-depth profile of Menendez published last week by ProPublica and Marketplace provides tremendous insight into what...
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Christopher Kirkpatrick, the 38-year old clinical psychologist who took his own life after being fired from the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center for complaining about the treatment of his patients there. Kirkpatrick would appear to be just one of the scores of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against for stepping up to...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Aicha Elbasri, the former spokesperson for the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). She resigned from that post in 2013 after calling out what she describes as the "conspiracy of silence" of UNAMID and the UN in failing to report on the atrocities committed by the Sudanese government against its people: "Systematic mass rape...