I have been attending a legal seminar on Whistleblower Statutes in DC so I can learn better how to vindicate people who reveal government mismanagement, fraud and violation of the law by employers and government agencies and are retaliated again.
Generally I can tell you this, there are over 3 dozen different laws providing such protection for different types of workers that blow the whistle on different subjects. It’s a great block of Swiss cheese, with no rhyme or reason whey they can't pass a comprehensive bill. Moreover, the time for filing, usually 30-180 days and where to file is different for each. So, if it happens to you, just hope you are part of the cheese and not in the hole and that you talk to an attorney early to set it up right.
Our noon speaker was an accountant at Lockheed/Grumman and after blowing the whistle, getting fired, becoming homeless, having the lug nuts sawed off his, his son's and his daughter's cars to break on the road, which they did, and having threats on his life, and after 18 years of litigation (being offered 3 million to settle) he eventually recovered 124 million for the taxpayers that this company had defrauded the government out of (in an elaborate scheme known by the company). It was very interesting.
Loren M. Lambert © October 18, 2013
Generally I can tell you this, there are over 3 dozen different laws providing such protection for different types of workers that blow the whistle on different subjects. It’s a great block of Swiss cheese, with no rhyme or reason whey they can't pass a comprehensive bill. Moreover, the time for filing, usually 30-180 days and where to file is different for each. So, if it happens to you, just hope you are part of the cheese and not in the hole and that you talk to an attorney early to set it up right.
Our noon speaker was an accountant at Lockheed/Grumman and after blowing the whistle, getting fired, becoming homeless, having the lug nuts sawed off his, his son's and his daughter's cars to break on the road, which they did, and having threats on his life, and after 18 years of litigation (being offered 3 million to settle) he eventually recovered 124 million for the taxpayers that this company had defrauded the government out of (in an elaborate scheme known by the company). It was very interesting.
Loren M. Lambert © October 18, 2013
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