The Washington Post published a front-page story about Dr. Daniel Yuan, one of the firm’s clients, and his reporting of serious problems with several biomedical research papers published by former colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University. This research was funded by large grants from NIH. The University fired Dr. Yuan after he persisted [...]
Continue Reading →In early 2009, a former Administrative Collection Unit Supervisor in Pennsylvania, Thomas D. Kimmett, filed suit claiming his attempts to uncover the systemic abuses in the Office of Attorney General’s Financial Enforcement Section were shut down.
However, Federal Magistrate Thomas M. Blewitt alleged that because Mr. Kimmett’s position was an elevated one with access [...]
Continue Reading →Chuck Montano was recently interviewed on Democracy Now about his whistleblowing activities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), and the retaliation he endured as a result of his activities. As an auditor, his job was to look for fraud, waste and abuse. However, when he persisted in reporting security and auditing [...]
Continue Reading →On October 2, Lynne Bernabei was interviewed by Federal News Radio about the amendments to the federal Whistleblower Protection Act that the House of Representatives recently approved, and which the Senate is expected to approve. Lynne explained how the amendments will improve the protection available to most federal employees who [...]
Continue Reading →The Associated Press recently reported on the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Berry v. Conyers and Northover, in which the court held that federal employees could not obtain judicial review of the denial of their security clearances, even if their positions did not require [...]
Continue Reading →The ABC affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania recently broadcast a story about Joseph Zorek, a former pharmacist at CVS who repeatedly reported and protested the directives by management to reduce staff hours and increase staff workload in order to improve profitability. These directives instead caused increased stress for the pharmacists, leading to errors in [...]
Continue Reading →In a recent CCH Employment Law Daily article, David Wachtel comments on the case of nine whistleblower employees, doctors and scientists, who raised concerns about the effectiveness of the FDA’s process for approving medical devices. The Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into the allegations and there is a lawsuit pending, filed by [...]
Continue Reading →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 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 [...]
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