Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 15, 2017
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower guardian for spies escorted out of intelligence agency building – The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding to know why an employee in charge of whistleblower outreach was removed from his workplace “pending a tribunal.” “I just learned that Dan Meyer, the Executive Director of Intelligence Community Whistleblowing and Source Protection, was placed on administrative leave and escorted out of his offices pending a tribunal before senior executives to consider his proposed termination,” wrote Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, in a letter sent to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Wayne Stone, the acting director of Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. Chicago Tribune
In Organic Labels Consumers Trust, But Fraud Threatens The Industry – People throughout the food-production chain — both domestically and internationally — trying to scam the system and make money off the premium prices for organic foods. The organic industry is trying to battle the problem, given that it could undermine consumers’ trust and burst its burgeoning $43 billion food market. “There’s an incentive for people who want to get organic prices for products that are not organic,” Welsch says, “because organic products generally are worth more than the conventional.” The scope of the problem isn’t fully known, but the USDA has published a list of 90 fraudulent certificates forged since 2008. Iowa Public Radio
Matt Lauer’s Anonymous Whistleblower at Today Is ‘Terrified,’ Her Lawyer Says – The lawyer of the unnamed woman whose single accusation of “inappropriate sexual behavior” lead to veteran Today Show anchor Matt Lauer‘s swift firing at the end of November by NBC News pleads with those searching for his client’s identity to stop because she is “terrified.” In an interview with Today‘s Stephanie Gosk that aired Friday, Ari Wilkenfeld explained that the Lauer whistleblower is living in a state of “constant fear that people are going to track her down and figure out who she is.” People