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The Whistleblowers How-To Guide
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Daily Beast/Newsweek
Posted: December 11th, 2012
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/11/frederic-wh...
Frederic Whitehurst had no idea what being a whistleblower entailed. He simply became outraged when he witnessed a colleague in the FBI laboratory giving misleading testimony in a criminal case two decades ago. So the supervisory agent decided to speak up, telling the defense experts about the inaccuracies. It cost him nearly a decade of his career, almost all his life savings, several emotionally draining internal investigations, the humiliation of a psychiatric exam, and an epic legal fight with the bureau. But the proudly stubborn Vietnam veteran persevered and ultimately prevailed in forcing sweeping ethical and scientific reforms at the vaunted FBI crime lab that began in the 1990s and still reverberate today. And while hed do it all again, Whitehurst doesnt want future whistleblowers to make the same mistakes he did. Thats why he and 19 other of Americas most famous corporate and government muckrakers of the last quarter century have banded together this month to donate thousands of copies of a book by their lawyer, Stephen Kohn, to libraries across America. Their goal is to give the next generation of American whistleblowers a roadmap, a virtual how-to guide to ensure they can call out wrongdoing successfully, be protected from the customary retributions, and maybe even cash in on False Claim Act awards that can reach into the millions of dollars. [They] are using their own money to buy copies of Kohns book, The Whistleblowers Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing Whats Right and Protecting Yourself, and donating them to libraries around the country.
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