Interview with 2015 Whistleblower of the Year Craig Watts - Part I
Posted 03/10/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Here is Part I of our interview with Whistleblower Insider’s 2015 Whistleblower of the Year winner -- Perdue chicken farmer Craig Watts. After more than twenty years in the business, working on the farm his family has owned since the 1700s, Watts decided to speak out against what he saw as Perdue’s gross mistreatment of chickens. He invited animal welfare group...
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 
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...
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By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer sent to jail in 2013 for disclosing details to the press about the agency's post-9/11 torture tactics. On Tuesday, after serving almost two years of a two-and-a-half year sentence, the government released him to serve...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" shines on FIFA whistleblower Phaedra Almajid. Ms. Almajid worked in a senior communications role for FIFA and blew the whistle on bribery in the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bidding process. She 
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By Gordon Schnell
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Mary Willingham, the former academic adviser at the University of North Carolina who went public on what she sees as the university's major failings in educating its big money athletes. In a talk she gave last week at the Durham Sports Club (as reported in