Judge orders BLM’s former top cop reinstated 3 years after dismissal

An administrative judge sided with the Bureau of Land Management’s former top law enforcement official in a yearslong legal battle over his dismissal amid assertions he was being punished for complaints about a top BLM official. Administrative Judge Evan Roth with the Merit Systems Protection Board issued a decision Friday that Eric Kriley, the former … Read more

U.S. workers without protective gear assisted coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower says (The Washington Post)

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint.

Statement from Joel Clement and Katherine Atkinson in response to the Department of Interior’s Inspector General’s report on the reassignment of career SES employees

Today, Joel Clement, the civil servant who filed a whistleblower complaint against the Department of the Interior; and Katherine Atkinson, the attorney from Wilkenfeld, Herendeen & Atkinson representing Joel Clement, released the following statements in response to the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Inspector General’s (IG’s) report on the reassignment of career SES employees.