“These 10 whistleblowers’ brave actions were met with intense bureaucratic blowback that caused severe financial and emotional hardship,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement announcing the settlements. “Their lives were upended for years, but I never stopped fighting until things were made right.” -
Victor Nava- All 10 FBI whistleblowers received lump sum settlement payments.
Under the Biden administration, the
whistleblowers were wrongly
subjected to demotions, security clearance revocation and indefinite unpaid administrative leave – collectively amounting to “over 12 years’ worth of inappropriate suspension time,” according to Grassley’s office...
The whistleblowers who reached settlements include:
- FBI Special Agent Stephen Friend - Friend was suspended indefinitely without pay and had his security clearance pulled after he objected to a SWAT team being used to arrest a January 6 riot defendant on a misdemeanor charge...
- FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle...
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