Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 1, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

EPA whistleblower says Pruitt ‘lied’ to Congress — “Former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski said he was ‘100 percent’ forced out after raising concerns about Pruitt’s spending on first-class travel.”  ABC

Russian doping whistleblower sues Olympians and Brooklyn Nets owner — “Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia’s former antidoping lab chief who in 2016 publicly detailed the nation’s Olympic doping schemes and upended Russia’s standing in international sports, responded to a defamation suit on Monday, countersuing several Russian Olympians and taking aim at the oligarch who is partly financing their legal fight: Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the controlling owner of the N.B.A.’s Brooklyn Nets.”  NYT

How the EU can help protect whistleblowers — “If Europe wants to rectify growing abuses to the rule of law, privacy rules and democracy in parts of the union, it will need to strengthen protections and legal redress as the [proposed EU whistleblower] directive seeks to do. But it must also be prepared to enforce them rigorously when the inevitable tests come.”  Bloomberg