The Los Alamos Monitor (New Mexico) recently published three articles about Charles Montano, a former client of Bernabei & Wachtel. We represented him in his whistleblower case against the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and run by the University of California. While an auditor at [...]
Continue Reading →The York Daily Record recently interviewed David Wachtel for comment on the Jerry Sandusky quagmire at Penn State and how it relates to assistant coach of the football team, Mike McQueary. McQueary, a graduate assistant at the time, says he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the shower in 2002. He [...]
Continue Reading →The Progressive Radio Network, on August 16, 2011, broadcast an interview with Lynne Bernabei and Ann Harris, a former client of Bernabei & Wachtel, who discussed safety and whistleblower issues relating to nuclear power.
Continue Reading →On August 9, 2011, the National Law Journal published an opinion piece by Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “The SEC properly expanded protection for attorney whistleblowers” which discussed how the SEC’s new regulations for the Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims will allow employees, including attorneys, to report financial misconduct by their corporate employers, even if [...]
Continue Reading →The firm is prosecuting an AIR21 complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on behalf of a corporate pilot against his former employer Metropolitan Aviation. AIR21 is also known as the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century and protects pilots and other aviation workers from retaliation when they [...]
Continue Reading →Part 2 of the CBS investigation into the Tennessee Valley Authority power plants revealed an environment in which questioning authority was not an option, even if those questions were addressing safety concerns. This is what several of our clients, who are featured in the CBS story, have said for years.
Although the plant [...]
Continue Reading →The CBS Early Morning Show had a lengthy feature on July 19, 2011 (video below) on the problems at the nuclear power plants run by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the inadequate oversight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The segment featured Ann Harris, a client of Bernabei & Wachtel, and a former TVA whistleblower at [...]
Continue Reading →Bernabei & Wachtel represents Caroline Herron, who formerly worked at Fannie Mae, and has whistleblower claims based on being fired after she reported and protested Fannie Mae’s waste of taxpayer funds in the government-funded home mortgage modification programs. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has twice denied defendants’ motion to dismiss her [...]
Continue Reading →Bernabei & Wachtel represented Glenn Walp, a senior security officer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was fired by the University of California after he reported and protested significant security problems at the nuclear weapons lab. Glenn published an interesting book about his experiences as a whistleblower, “Implosion at Los Alamos,” which [...]
Continue Reading →Bernabei & Wachtel is pleased to report a favorable ruling in our Fannie Mae whistleblower case. We represent Caroline Herron, who was terminated by Fannie Mae after she kept reporting and protesting, both internally and to Treasury, the fact that Fannie Mae was knowingly wasting government funds through its mortgage modification programs. Fannie was “processing” thousands [...]
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