Democracy Whistleblower Profile

Grant Turner

Grant Turner In 2020, Grant Turner, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), along with fellow executives and impacted employees, stepped forward as whistleblowers to report abuses by political operatives installed at Voice of America, its sibling networks, and its oversight agency USAGM. While by law these networks must report news [...]

2023-12-05T07:34:59-05:00November 29th, 2021|Democracy Whistleblower Profile, Whistleblower Profiles|

Maria Yovanovitch

Maria Yovanovitch In November 2019, Maria Yovanovitch, former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, testified at former President Trump’s first impeachment hearing. She noted that Trump removed her from the position on the basis of false claims provided by associates of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who at the time was attempting to persuade the Ukranian government into [...]

2023-12-05T07:33:47-05:00November 29th, 2021|Democracy Whistleblower Profile, Whistleblower Profiles|

Anika Collier Navaroli

Anika Collier Navaroli Anika Navaroli, former senior policy expert for Twitter’s safety team, testified during public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack regarding Twitter’s refusal to remove content fomenting and then foreseeably culminating in the violent January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navaroli was awarded the Ridenhour Prize, which [...]

2023-12-05T07:33:04-05:00November 29th, 2021|Democracy Whistleblower Profile, Whistleblower Profiles|

Ukraine Whistleblower

Ukraine Whistleblower On August 12, 2019, the anonymous “Ukraine Whistleblower” filed a complaint detailing the months-long effort by President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Guiliani to influence the 2020 election by pressuring Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s main political rival in the 2020 election, [...]

2023-12-05T07:31:41-05:00November 29th, 2021|Democracy Whistleblower Profile, Whistleblower Profiles|

John Elias

John Elias John Elias, the former acting Chief of Staff to the Head of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, blew the whistle on politically motivated investigations ordered by Attorney General William Barr. Elias reported that cases pursued “centered not on an antitrust analysis,” but due to the attorney general’s “personal dislike” and political differences with particular [...]

2023-12-05T07:27:38-05:00November 29th, 2021|Democracy Whistleblower Profile, Whistleblower Profiles|