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Whistleblower to Present Updated East Palestine Findings at SETAC North America 2025
Government Accountability Project is proud to announce that whistleblower client Scott Smith and his research team will present their latest findings on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 2025 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Good Government Organizations Urge Congress to Act on Ingrassia “wake-up call”
Today, after Paul Ingrassia withdrawing his nomination to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), six leading groups in the nonpartisan Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) sent a letter to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) urging aggressive oversight to restore credible whistleblower protection rights and prevent a spoils system.
Official Gave Federal Judge Inaccurate Assurances on Safety of Children Set for Deportation
Today, Government Accountability Project sent a protected whistleblower disclosure to Congress on behalf of its clients alleging that the Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) made inaccurate statements to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. These statements could put at least 30 children at risk of abuse, neglect, human trafficking, torture, and other forms of violence if returned to Guatemala.
Foundation for Investigative Journalism: ALERT: ‘There Are Plans’ To Kill Whistleblower Who ‘Exposed Organ Harvesting’ in the Police
No fewer than 21 civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria and abroad have petitioned the federal government to probe assassination attempts on the life of Nnamdi Emeh, an imprisoned 27-year-old corps member.
Bloomberg Law: Judge’s Order Saps Trump’s Legal Case for Shutdown Layoffs
A district court judge torpedoed the Trump administration’s argument for firing federal workers during the government shutdown, throwing up new legal barriers that may prove difficult for the president’s attorneys to overcome.
New York Times: Under Trump, Voice of America is Down but Not Out
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete.
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Government Accountability Project
Statement of Retraction
Government Accountability Project and the co-authors Tom Devine, Samantha Feinstein and John Kolar (hereafter “the retractors”) of Chapter 15 of the book entitled, “The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption,” published in April 2024, hereby retracts the “Case Study of Nurse Wooten” in its entirety and all of its content that may appear elsewhere in said publication or reviews and promotions thereof concerning Dr. Mahendra Amin. By this retraction, the retractors intend to fully and completely make the retractions he has demanded through his attorneys. After further review of all available press reports, information and judicial opinions, and upon his written demand, the retractors apologize to Dr. Mahendra Amin and state that they should not have relied upon and cannot now rely upon derogatory materials that the retractors cited, quoted or otherwise stated in the publications named in said written demand. The retractors retract without qualification all statements made by them that were critical of Dr. Mahendra Amin, including statements that he committed medical neglect, performed unnecessary gynecological procedures or mass hysterectomies on women detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, and including any inferences that he was a “uterus collector”, as well as any and all other statements that impugned his professional conduct or character. The retractors will not promote or republish any such information on its website or in any of its printed materials and have removed therefrom the statements subject to the written retraction demand. The retractors will request that the publisher, Taylor & Francis, Inc., post unconditional retractions in all known written and electronically published material made or repeated by the retractors.
