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Whistleblower who Established Hostile Work Protections for Federal Employees Sues to Enforce Settlement

Whistleblower Network News

Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. She then went to the auditing department.

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Ex-Atlanta Worker Says City's Missing Docs Merits Sanctions

Government Contracts

Counsel for a former city of Atlanta department head who says she was fired after blowing the whistle on failures in its immigrant outreach services urged a Georgia federal judge on Thursday to hit the city with sanctions for reportedly destroying communications related to her termination.

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Government shutdown puts contractors in precarious position

Federal News Network

There’s never a convenient time for a full or even a partial government shutdown, but we’ve reached the beginning of the end of another fiscal year with the likelihood of a shutdown rising. What are you hearing mostly from the folks who are on the government contracting side? Eric White Yeah.

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GSA contracting officers are driving schedule holders crazy

Federal News Network

And it’s time to get these issues out in front of people… get a little disinfecting sunshine on them, if you will, so that we have a program that works better not just for contractors, but for government customers. What are contracting officers actually doing, that the contractors are complaining about? Larry Allen Right.

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MSPB Orders Army Corps of Engineers to Offer “Sincere Thanks” to Whistleblower

Whistleblower Network News

Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Savage raised concerns internally to the highest levels of the command, and nothing was done.

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New SDNY Whistleblower Program May Be A Game-Changer

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Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York promises to immunize from prosecution certain individuals who blow the whistle on financial crimes and corruption, and if similar self-disclosure programs are any indication, this significant new policy may measurably increase white collar investigations, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

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Three Black Women Whistleblowers That Broke Silence and Caused Sweeping Reforms

Whistleblower Network News

Toni Savage Dr. Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. The auditing department confirmed all her allegations of contract fraud.