Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Federal Whistleblower Investigator Fired After Blowing the Whistle on His Own Agency




A federal whistleblower investigator who put his career on the line to expose what he calls bureaucratic dysfunction has been fired, NBC Bay Area has learned.

Darrell Whitman, a former San Francisco-based investigator for the Whistleblower Protection Program administered by OSHA, claimed the agency failed to defend workers who faced retaliation for reporting illegal activity and public safety concerns.

"They got rid of the squeaky wheel," Whitman said.

He now views his own termination from OSHA as retaliation for raising red flags about the agency.

"I was going to report what I thought to be violations of law and policy," Whitman said. "They were going to have to answer to those reports and they didn’t like that."

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Source: NBC News 

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