Our Top 5 of 2022 2022 was a record year! At Government Accountability Project, we were hard at work protecting whistleblowers and helping bring their disclosures to light. As one year ends and the next begins, we want to look back and reflect upon our best work and most important cases of 2022. Meltdown: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The EPA is Getting Rid of Its Online Archive and Groups Are Unhappy This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to sunset its online archive next month and activist groups are not happy about it. Content from the archive will be moved elsewhere when the archive [...]
Trump EPA head pushed agents to speed, run sirens This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Kevin Chmielewski, and was originally published here. Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt prodded his security agents to drive recklessly and turn on emergency lights and sirens to maneuver around traffic in the nation’s capital. Interviews with agents [...]
For Immediate Release: May 27, 2022 U.S. Special Counsel Findings Vindicate Government Accountability Project Client Kevin Chmielewski, Whose Whistleblowing Exposed Scott Pruitt’s Corruption WASHINGTON – Scott Pruitt, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and current candidate for the United States Senate, resigned from his position in July 2018 after a flurry of [...]
Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed This article excerpt features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Kevin Chmielewski, and was originally published here. "The names of the four whistle-blowers were not disclosed in the letter to Mr. Biden, and a spokeswoman for the E.P.A. said the agency, now under [...]