FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2022 New York City Monkeypox Whistleblower Testifies About Health Department’s Dangerous Monkeypox Public Messaging Dr. Don Weiss Repeatedly Told City Officials that Advising the Public – “Sores Should be Covered” When Having Sex -- was Wrong Based on the Science and Medicine WASHINGTON—At today’s New York City Council Health [...]
Concern is growing over coercion in USDA chicken rule This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rudy Howell, and was originally published here. ADVOCATES AND USDA WARN AGAINST POULTRY COERCION: Advocates and former growers are accusing some of the country’s largest poultry companies of pressuring farmers to oppose a proposed USDA rule they say [...]
Monkeypox has health officials repeating their COVID-19 mistakes This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Dr. Don Weiss, and was originally published here. It’s a virus with a different name, different symptoms, and different forms of transmission. Yet as monkeypox spreads, we find ourselves mired in the same mess of mixed signals, contradictory [...]
Top NYC Health Official Claims 'Retaliation' After Monkeypox Messaging Dispute This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Dr. Don Weiss, and was originally published here. A veteran top infectious diseases expert at the New York City Health Department says he was reassigned in "retaliation" for butting heads with higher-ups regarding the city's monkeypox messaging. [...]
Monkeypox: Watchdog group joins fight to reinstate NYC health official, issues warning letter to commish This article features Government Accountability Project's whistleblower client, Dr. Don Weiss, and was originally published here. Dr. Don Weiss isn’t taking his reassignment lying down. As Gothamist reported two weeks ago, the senior epidemiologist was removed from his post as [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 9, 2022 New York City Monkeypox Whistleblower Seeks Reinstatement Dr. Don Weiss Will Use Whistleblower Laws to Compel the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to Reverse His Recent “Reassignment” for Whistleblowing WASHINGTON—Government Accountability Project has notified New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Ashwin [...]
FIC Farmer Whistleblower Featured in Documentary ‘The End of Medicine’ Farmer Rudy’s Story Hits the Big Screen Our famer whistleblower is speaking truth to power in the movie The End of Medicine. For those not familiar with Rudy Howell’s story, in 2020, farmer Rudy was terminated for speaking out against the poultry industry. After [...]
“If There is Not a Change, There is Not Going to be a Change” Dawn Wooten’s Impact, One Year Later At this time last year, over 270 thousand new cases of COVID-19 were recorded, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the first woman to lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, and devastating wildfires out west injected climate change into the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2021 Government Accountability Project Commends Special Report on Medical Abuse of Immigrants Detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility was at the center of our whistleblower client Dawn Wooten’s disclosure last year. WASHINGTON – Yesterday, members of the immigration justice community released a special report on the detention facility that our whistleblower client, Dawn [...]
More Whistleblowers Call Attention to Mistreatment of Immigrant Children This article features our clients Arthur Pearlstein, Lauren Reinhold, Laurie Elkin, and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. On July 7, two whistleblowers sent a letter to Congress alleging “gross mismanagement and specific endangerment to public health and safety” at the Fort Bliss Emergency Intake Site (EIS) [...]