May 1, 2024  Whistleblowers Disclose Misconduct by Acting CBP Chief Medical Officer  WASHINGTON – Government Accountability Project today submitted a protected whistleblower disclosure to Congress, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Office of Special Counsel on behalf of multiple employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The whistleblowers disclosed that CBP’s Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alexander Eastman has repeatedly violated agency policy prohibiting the consumption of alcohol while carrying a CBP-issued firearm.    The disclosur ..read more

April 30, 2024  Statement Urging Congressional Oversight of CBP Medical Budget  WASHINGTON — Today, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Troy Miller testified at a hearing of the House Committee on Appropriations for the President’s fiscal year 2025 budget request for CBP, requesting nearly $20 billion for the agency.  At the hearing, Representative Lauren Underwood (D-Ill) asked Acting Commissioner Miller what changes the agency made in operations and oversight of its contractor, Loyal Source Government Services, following the death of 8-year-old Ana ..read more

USA Today: Crane whistleblower claims Army, Navy retaliated against him; may testify before Congress This article features Government Accountability Project Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. A whistleblower and former safety chief at a southern Indiana military installation said since he filed a report warning of potentially dangerous safety lapses, the U.S. Army and Navy have retaliated against him and are torpedoing his career. Rick Ward said he repeatedly warned the military branches that sloppy handling of explosives at Crane Army ..read more

The Herald-Times: Crane whistleblower claims Army, Navy retaliated against him; may testify before Congress This article features Government Accountability Project Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. A whistleblower and former safety chief at a southern Indiana military installation said since he filed a report warning of potentially dangerous safety lapses, the U.S. Army and Navy have retaliated against him and are torpedoing his career. Rick Ward said he repeatedly warned the military branches that sloppy handling of explosives at Crane Ar ..read more

April 26, 2024  ORR Affirms Whistleblower Protections in Finalized Rule for Unaccompanied Children    WASHINGTON – On April 23, 2024, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) announced its Foundational Rule to codify Flores protections for unaccompanied children. The final Rule establishes standards for the care and custody of noncitizen minors, which have largely been governed by the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement.   The Foundational Rule includes provisions for healthcare, placement and release, and legal access for children in ORR custo ..read more

April 23, 2024  Public Statement Submitted Urging Congress to End the Abusive Use of Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention After 10 Years of Torture   WASHINGTON– Yesterday, Government Accountability Project submitted a statement to Congress in support of the recent April 16, 2024 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Legacy of Harm: Eliminating the Abuse of Solitary Confinement.”   The hearing came more than ten years after our client, Ms. Ellen Gallagher began raising the alarm as an attorney for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties ..read more

April 19, 2024 To: the offices sponsoring H.R.8061 and committees of jurisdiction With deep concern, our five organizations – Government Accountability Project, National Whistleblower Center, Whistleblowers of America, The Anti-Fraud (TAF) Coalition, and Empower Oversight – come together to write to you in regards to the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act as introduced yesterday, April 18, 2024 and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The undersigned comprise of organizations that have spent decades working directly on the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions, which are ..read more

“They just guinea pigged him to death,” Exxon Worker’s Medical Horror Story It is a piece of history that effectively has been buried, and it is eerily familiar to the stories of countless Deepwater Horizon response workers whose health and lives have been wrecked by exposure to oil and chemical dispersants with similar health impacts. Melissa Stubblefield has a story to tell, and it’s one that she has been unable to share since her husband Garry Stubblefield made history as one of the only Exxon Valdez oil spill workers to win his case against Exxon three decades ago. Mrs. Stubblefield is te ..read more

Rolling Stone: Hamas Arms Maker and ‘Serial Fraudster’ Gets 70 Years in Prison for Torture This article was written by Government Accountability Project Investigator, Zack Kopplin, and was originally published here. IN A SECRET recording produced at trial, Ross Roggio, an international arms dealer and con artist from Pennsylvania, spat defiance towards the federal agents investigating him. “They can fucking arrest me and torture me till the day they die,” he said. The federal prison system is about to get a chance to do just that. Roggio, 55, was convicted of money laundering ..read more

April 18, 2024  Fourth Installment of BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Report Reveals Terrifying Consequences of Cleanup Chemical Corexit  WASHINGTON – Today, Legal Director Tom Devine and Environmental Investigator Lesley Pacey released a report on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill entitled, “Deep Impact: Ongoing Vulnerability in Oil Spills from the Deadly Dispersant Corexit.”   The report, released just before the 14th memorial of the oil disaster. features nearly two dozen new affidavits from whistleblowers including cleanup workers, residents, journalists, medical person ..read more