Futuro Investigates: DEA Trained Agents Work in Latin America and Conspire with the Cartels This article features Government Accountability Project Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. For decades, the DEA has supported special units abroad, whose agents are local police officers vetted and trained by the U.S. Now, former agents and [...]
Mass Tort News LegalCast: whistleblower.org, Government Accountability Project with David Seide This video features Government Accountability Project's Of Counsel, David Seide, and was originally published here. David Seide serves as Senior Counsel at Government Accountability Project (GAP), a non-profit supporting government whistleblowers, where he specializes in immigration issues. David began his career in 1983 [...]
Business Insider: The Age of the Work-From-Home Whistleblower This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here. When Simon Edelman blew the whistle on his former employer, the US Department of Energy, he couldn't have known that his act of defiance was at the forefront of a growing [...]
Whistleblower News Network: Case Management Failures & Possible Whistleblower Chilling: HHS OIG's Findings at Fort Bliss This article contains Government Accountability Project clients Laurie Elkin, Justin Mulaire, Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold and was originally published here. In 2021, WNN reported on multiple whistleblower complaints regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Emergency Intake [...]
Former Asylum Officer Doug Stephens Doug Stephens worked as an Asylum Officer in the San Francisco Asylum office from September 2017 until August 31, 2019. In his two years as an Asylum Officer, he conducted and adjudicated more than 350 Affirmative Asylum interviews, Credible Fear screenings, and Reasonable Fear screenings. Prior to his [...]
Attorney Ellen Gallagher Ellen Gallagher is a former policy adviser at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (DHS-CRCL) and current employee at the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG). She has blown the whistle on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of solitary confinement on mentally [...]
Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Josiah “Jody” Rich In February and March 2020, at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we helped our client Dr. Scott Allen - who had formerly raised concerns with his colleague Dr. Pamela McPherson about the risk of harm to children in ICE detention - and new [...]
Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pam McPherson In July 2018, Government Accountability Project clients Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson, medical and mental health subject matter experts for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (DHS/CRCL), made the brave decision to blow the whistle on the government’s [...]
Fort Bliss Whistleblowers Government Accountability Project represents ten whistleblowers, both federal employee detailees and contractors, who have raised concerns about unsafe conditions for minors and operational failures, including case management and sponsorship problems, at the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) emergency site at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Our first whistleblower [...]
Dawn Wooten Ms. Dawn Wooten, LPN, worked as a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detention center in Ocilla, Georgia. As COVID-19 began to spread like wildfire in early 2020, particularly in congregate settings like immigration detention facilities, Ms. Wooten became gravely concerned about [...]
