Whistleblower News From The Inside – April 7, 2015
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Bust of Snowden snuck into Brooklyn park — A group of artists installed a 100-pound, 4-foot-tall bust of the former NSA whistleblower in Fort Greene Park but it was later removed by the NYC Parks and Recreation Department. Politico
United Technologies succeeds in overturning government claims of being overcharged for Pratt & Whitney jet engines — The 6th Circuit says the government had the burden of proving damages “and it never did,” and remanded the case to the trial court that previously ordered the company to pay $657 million in damages. WSJ
Georgia pays $480,000 to National Guard whistleblower — Georgia National Guard publicist MaryTherese Grabowski claimed she was fired for questioning the propriety and legality of certain actions taken by former National Guard commander Jim Butterworth. NBC
Another NSA whistleblower speaks out — Bill Binney discusses why he thinks President Barack Obama is “violating the public trust” and what Americans can do to protect themselves from unwarranted surveillance. Aljazeera
Whistleblower alleges contractor fraud at massive NYC subway project — Alex Maack claims overbilling to the MTA by at least one subcontractor on the $4.45 billion Second Avenue Subway project in Manhattan. NY Post
Portland-based federal power agency settles 4 whistleblower complaints — The Bonneville Power Administration reached confidential settlements with four employees who filed whistleblower complaints after bringing the agency’s veterans hiring scandal to light in 2013. OregonLive
EDPA seeing stiff competition for whistleblower litigation – “Several U.S. attorneys have begun courting False Claims Act litigation in recent years . . . chipping away at the dominance that Philadelphia and Boston once had on whistleblower cases.” Legal Intelligencer