GAP’s Devine Testifying Before Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Subcommittee

GAP Legal Director Tom Devine will testify before a Senate subcommittee this morning about the adequacy of the occupational safety whistleblower laws administered by the Department of Labor. The hearing, Workers’ Memorial Day: Are Existing Private Sector Whistleblower Protections Adequate To Ensure Safe Workplaces?, is being held at 10 a.m. by the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, which is within the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. Watch his testimony live.

Boing Boing: Fact-Checking Hillary Clinton’s Comments on Edward Snowden and the NSA

This article from the Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation fact-checks recent remarks about NSA whistleblower and GAP client Edward Snowden made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Specifically, Clinton is proven incorrect in asserting that:

  1. Snowden could have sparked a debate by staying in the U.S. (in reality, he would be imprisoned and unable to speak to the media);
  2. Snowden enjoyed whistleblower protections (protections for intelligence agency employees remain inadequate, but even so, they didn’t apply to him since he was a contractor);
  3. The whistleblower took “refuge in Russia” (the U.S. revoked his passport during his travel, forcing him to stay there); and
  4. Snowden gave information to “big countries” (he gave no information to countries, only journalists).

Delaware News Journal: Delaware Joins Suit Alleging Gift-Card Scheme

Last week, the Delaware Justice Department joined a whistleblower suit alleging that several large companies, including “Netflix, California Pizza Kitchen and Shell Oil,” fraudulently deprived the state in a scheme involving the value of “unused gift cards,” “uncashed corporate checks … unclaimed stock dividends, business rebates and credits.” The state’s budget relies on these “unclaimed property revenue,” but companies were allegedly putting such funds in a separate corporation with the intent of skirting their financial liabilities.

 

Dylan Blaylock is Communications Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.