The Honorable Lanny
Breuer – Asst AG
Robert Mueller – Director
Department of
Justice - Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
950 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW J.
Edgar Hoover Building
Washington, DC
20530 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Patrick J.
Fitzgerald – U.S. Attorney Robert D.
Grant
Northern District of
Illinois – Eastern Division
Special Agent-in-Charge
U.S. Department of
Justice
Chicago Federal Bureau of
Investigation
219 South Dearborn
Street – 5th Floor 2111
West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, Illinois
60604
Chicago, Illinois 60608
SUBJ: SEC INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED UNITED
AIRLINES BANKRUPTCY CORRUPTION
Dear Honorable Mary
Schapiro and Gentlemen,
I currently serve as
national public spokesperson for the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association, an
international grassroots airline safety and security advocacy group representing
the interests and concerns of employees from the airline industry, Federal
Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration, whose
‘special interests’ are the millions who travel by commercial air. Our goal is to support the FAA mission
statement of in making our aerospace system “the safest, most efficient
aerospace system in the world”.
In support of this
goal and our organization, several notable members of prominent whistleblower
organizations recently endorsed our honest efforts:
“Dan Hanley’s
leadership of the Whistleblowing Airlines Employees Association personifies why
whistleblowers make a difference keeping bureaucracies and politicians honest,
and warning the public when they’re not. His commitment to public service is
cheerfully relentless and unqualified. As long as he is breathing, he is
fighting bureaucratic abuses of power that betray the public trust,” stated Tom
Devine, GAP legal director.
“Dan Hanley
is an effective champion for advancing the rights of whistleblowers. Dan’s
tireless work on behalf of airline employees, and his effective voice as a
national spokesman on behalf of the Whistleblowing Airlines Employees
Association, is vital to protect the rights of all employees to expose illegal
conduct by their employers. Dan has been on the front lines in the battle to
hold our nation’s airlines accountable for lapses in airline safety, threats to
national security and violations of law.
Additionally, Dan is helping to ignite a
growing grass-roots movement of citizens, whistleblowers and activists to
support the enactment of strong whistleblower protections for both government
and private industry employees. We whole-heartedly support and appreciate Dan’s
efforts and look forward to working with him to accomplish long-overdue goals of
effective government reforms and stronger whistleblower
laws.”
Additionally, I was recently honored with an ethics
award in the grassroots category presented by “Power
Over Poverty Under
Laws of America Restored”
(POPULAR). Members of this nonprofit corporation are committed to helping poor
and other disadvantaged people access to affordable and competent legal
representation, appropriate judicial oversight, and important civil and criminal
justice system reforms.
Grassroots
Advocacy Category:
Captain Dan Hanleyof the “Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association” for his relentless
advocacy to ultimately keep the skies safe for millions of air travelers,
culminating with a recent commitment by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission to consider alleged improprieties attendant to the United Airlines
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Finally, on
January 28, 2010, my name and our association recently appeared as one of 352
organizations and corporations in an open letter sent to President Obama and
members of Congress supporting swift action restore strong and comprehensive
whistleblower rights.
President
Obama campaigned on promises of greater openness of government and enhanced
protection for federal whistleblowers.
When President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 into law, he
proclaimed this legislation to be the “most far-reaching reforms in American
business practices since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt”. This law, supposedly designed to protect
corporate whistleblowers, has not served me well in that regard. It is just a trap, and secretive DOJ
‘deferred prosecution agreements’
make it even more so. The law must be
repealed or amended to protect honest whistleblowers who speak out.
Reference
exhibits to the following may be found on the Whistleblowing Airline Employees
Association Exhibit Filepage of our website, but are hyperlinked below
for your reading convenience:
On November 3, 2009,
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Inspector General H. David Kotz advised me
in a letterthat the Securities and Exchange Commission had initiated an
investigation in response to a letter sent dated January 29, 2009 requesting
said investigation concerning my Sarbanes-Oxley filing in October 2007 of
alleged issues of corruption associated with the United Airlines post-9/11
bankruptcy.
On November 23, 2009, I
sent a letterof inquiry to Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division Lanny
Breuer asking as to whether a ‘deferred prosecution agreement’ had been entered
into with the management of United Airlines concerning corruption issues
surrounding their bankruptcy. To date,
this office has not responded to this inquiry.
On January 22, 2010, I
wrote ajoint letterto
Department of Labor Inspector General Gordon S. Heddell, Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) Inspector General
Rebecca Anne Batts, and PBGC Acting Director Vincent K. Snowbarger requesting
that specific information be forwarded to me and the office of SEC Commissioner
Mary Schapiro as part of the ongoing investigation.
On January 24, 2010, I
wrote a letter to Social
Security Administration Inspector General Patrick P. O’Carroll requesting that
he forward a file pertaining to my Social Security Disability Income appeal,
which included transcripts of my sworn testimony before Social Security
Administrative Judge F. Jefferson Hughes in Atlanta, Georgia on July 23, 2008,
some of which said testimony pertains to elements of this
investigation.
On January 25, 2010, I
wrote a joint letter to
Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson and Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner requesting that they forward to me and the office of SEC
Commissioner Mary Schapiro the information previously requested by me in a
letter dated February 2, 2009 to IG Thorson, which went unanswered by his
office.
Please allow
me to digress to 2006 to reflect on the legal and political path that I have
journeyed the past 38 months in an effort with others to bring the truth to
light and serve justice on alleged white-collar criminal activity associated
with the United Airlines bankruptcy without
success.
On April 12, 2006, I sent
a joint letter to
then Attorney General Gonzales, Department of Homeland Security Chertoff, and
Transportation Secretary Mineta, advising them that I was a federal
whistleblower who had reported on air safety and security issues via a filed FAA
Whistleblower Protection Report and also of the establishment of the grassroots
Whistleblowing United Pilots
Association, while asking for their cooperation and
assistance.
On May 12, 2006, I
received a letterfrom DHS Bryan, which ignored the fact that I wanted to report security
issue frailties, but assured me that the Department of Transportation would
handle my FAA Whistleblower Report in a timely
manner.
The
Department of Transportation never responded to my April 12th letter and ‘lost’
my FAA Whistleblower Protection Report.
On November 13, 2006, I
wrote a letter to
Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Government Oversight Committee,
advising him of issues pertaining to this case.
Additionally, I had numerous phone conversations and email exchanges with
his staffer Matt Siegler, who repeatedly advised me that Congressman Waxman’s
staff would not investigate this matter.
On July 3, 2006, I
received a letter from DOJ
Toner advising me to contact my nearest FBI Field Office if I had criminal
information available for review, while concurring that the Department of
Transportation would administrate the FAA Whistle Blower Protection Report that
I had mentioned in the April 12th letter.
On November 18, 2006, I
wrote a joint letter to
Senators Reid and Durbin and then Senator Obama advising them of the
availability of criminal evidence associated with this case, while requesting
their assistance in bringing this case to public
light.
On November 20, 2006, I
wrote a letter to District
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald advising him of this same information, while asking
for legal intercession.
On December 11, 2006, I
received a letterfrom
District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s office advising me to contact the
office of Chicago FBI if I had criminal evidence/witnesses
available to support my allegations.
On January 25, 2007, I
sent letters to all
Democratic Senators who sat on the Senate Judiciary and Senate Pension
Committees regarding issues of judicial and pension termination corruption, but
did not receive a single response.
On January 25, 2007, I sent letters to all
Democratic congressmen who sat on the House Judiciary and Pension Committees
regarding issues of judicial and pension termination corruption, but did not
receive a single response.
On April 1, 2007, I wrote
a letterto Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant advising his office of this same
information.
On May 4, 2007, I
received aletterfrom Ms.
Joan Currie-Leonard, Senator Obama’s Special Assistant in his Chicago Office, in
response to the joint letter I had sent on November 18th advising me to contact
my home state of Georgia representatives concerning this matter since I was not
an Illinois resident, even though the alleged criminality took place in the
state of Illinois.
On May 16, 2007, I
received a letter from FBI
Washington Public Corruption Unit Anderson in response to the April 1st letter
that I had mailed to Mr. Grant advising me to contact the Atlanta FBI office
with information concerning this matter.
Because I did not physically possess criminal evidence nor have access to
key witnesses in this case, and because I was made aware that Mr. Michael Lynch
had already briefed the office of Patrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago FBI, and the
Chicago Crime Commission on this matter as a result of a filed federal
complaint, I felt that my visit to the Atlanta FBI Field Office would serve no
purpose at that time.
On September 1, 2007, I
wrote a letter to then
Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division Alice Fisher apprising her of the
same facts concerning the availability of evidence/witnesses in this
case.
On October 24, 2007, I once again wrote
aletterto then
Senator Obama’s Special Assistant Joan Currie-Leonard, only this time as
spokesperson for the Whistleblowing United Pilots Association, detailing the
information that was available, while requesting that Senator Obama launch an
investigation into this matter.
On November 6, 2007, in a
letter response to
me, Ms. Leonard once again deferred me to my home state congressional
representatives in Georgia.
On October 6, 2007, I
received an unsolicitedletter from my
home state of Georgia Congressman Westmoreland advising me that his staffer Jean
Stoddard would look into this matter and do everything to assist
me.
On October 18, 2007, I
wrote a letter to SEC
Commissioner Christopher Cox, with enclosures, declaring myself a Sarbanes-Oxley
whistleblower, while demanding an investigation into this case and insisting on
guarantees of enforcement of the protective provisions of this
law.
On October 19, 2007, I
wrote letters to Senators Kennedy and Leahy, and
Congressmen Waxman, Miller, Conyers, and
Westmoreland
advising them that I had filed for Sarbanes-Oxley protection, but their offices
never responded to offer me any assistance.
Additionally, on this date, I wrote my Congressman Westmoreland advising
him of this fact, but his office never responded.
On October 22, 2007, I also received an
unsolicitedletter from
Senator Chambliss advising me that “I have contacted the Department of Justice
on your behalf and will certainly share their response with you when I receive
it”.
On October 25, 2007, I
sent a letterwith
enclosures to Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, which contained the same information sent to Mr. Cox, and
requesting protection under this law. I
was advised in subsequent phone conversations with his staffer, Kata Sabenga,
that due to staff limitations, Senator Levin would be unable to assist
me.
On November 5, 2007, I
received a letterresponse
from Senator Chambliss advising me “While I regret to learn of your
difficulties, I, as a United States Senator, have no jurisdiction over matters
such as these”.
On November 5, 2007, I
also received a letter from SEC
Senior Counsel Juliet Gardner advising me that “I have passed your views on to
the people at the SEC who specialize in the issues you’ve raised. If they have any questions or wish to respond
to your comments, they will contact you”.
On December 12, 2007, I
received a cover letterfrom DOJ
Toner with an enclosed letter from Deputy Assistant Attorney General John
Keeney, in response to my April 1st letter to Assistant AG Fisher, which totally
skirted every issue that I addressed in that
letter.
On December 18, 2007, I received a copy of
this same letter from Mr. Keeney from my Congressman
Westmoreland.
On
February 10, 2008, I sent a letterto
Assistant Attorney General Keeney requesting that he review the content of my
letter to Asst AG Fisher, as I felt that his letter did not respond to my
questions, but never received a response from his
office.
On February 14, 2008, I phone-contacted
the office of the Chicago FBI and filed a federal complaint (Complaint #
2008-9580) with FBI Agent David Barusko at the intake unit desk, while asking
him to keep the file open pending future submission of evidence/witness list
with guaranteed witness protection for informants. During this phone conversation, I was advised
by Agent Barusko that a secret meeting could be arranged at an undisclosed
location of our choice in the Chicago area wherein informants could be
questioned and evidence collected, but that DOJ would have to review the case
before witness protection could be afforded due to the expense of federal
marshal protection.
Additionally, on February 14, 2008, after
numerous phone conversations with Senator Leahy staffer Matt Robinson, I emailed
to him issues pertaining to this case regarding alleged judicial corruption, but
no assistance was rendered by this office.
On February 21, 2008, I
once again petitioned Congressman Waxman staffer Matt Siegler via email to assist in
this matter, but he never responded to my call for help. (Please scroll to the
bottom of the page)
On February 22, 2008, I
wrote a letter to Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Grant advising him of my phone conversation with
Agent Barusko, while detailing the protections we would need to meet at an
undisclosed location of our choice, but his office never
responded.
On February 26, 2008, I
also received the same copy of Mr. Keeney’s letterfrom
Senator Chambliss.
On July 23, 2008, I appeared under oath
before Social Security Administrative Judge F. Jefferson Hughes regarding my
Social Security Disability Income appeal hearing, which I claimed that I was not
entitled to SSDI due to the fact I was fully capable of employment, but not as a
pilot since I had been ‘permanently grounded’.
During this hearing, I detailed my legal and political plight the past
several years, which included allegations of white-collar criminality associated
with the United Airlines bankruptcy that I had been attempting to report to
competent legal and political authorities.
I felt at the time that since Judge Hughes had recently served as a
Department of Justice attorney, since he was an officer of the court, he would
be obliged to report this alleged wrongdoing to the Department of Justice. The entire testimony was digitally-recorded
and I obtained a copy of the court transcripts a few days after the
hearing.
On January 25, 2009, I
wrote a letter to
Department of Transportation Inspector General Scovel advising him that my April
2006 FAA Whistle Blower Report had never been administrated. I subsequently received an email response
that there was no record of the report and that no further action would be taken
by the DOT IG office regarding this matter.
On January 26, 2009,
after phone conversations with staffer Brian Downey, I wrote Senator Grassley a letter advising
him that I was an FAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Social Security fraud whistleblower,
but his office never responded to this letter, nor to subsequent voice mail
messages left for Mr. Downey.
On January 28,
2009, I wrote aletterto Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General Kotz advising
him that my filed October 2007 Sarbanes-Oxley report had been ignored by the SEC
and petitioned his office for assistance.
On January 29, 2009, I filed a Social
Security fraud report with the Social Security Office of Inspector General
O’Connell concerning my SSDI appeal.
On January 30, 2009, I called the Chicago
FBI office to confirm that my filed federal complaint of February 14, 2008 was
still an open file, which I was assured that it
was.
On January 31, 2009, I
wrote a letter to
President Obama detailing the events of the past two years since I had written
his Illinois senate office in the fall of 2006, while petitioning his office for
support, since he then had jurisdiction over his relevant cabinet members. To date, I have not received a White House
response to this letter.
On January 31, 2009, I
sent a letter to
Department of Justice Inspector General Fine detailing all of the issues
addressed above, while asking for his legal assistance in this
matter.
On February 2, 2009, I flew to Chicago,
rented a car, and drove to the Chicago FBI office to deliver evidence and the
names of witness to be included in the complaint file, but was advised by the
reviewing agent that the FBI was not going to investigate my case
without ever having reviewed the tiniest shred of evidence nor
interviewing a single witness.
On the
evening of February 2, 2009, I wrote aletter to Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Grant asking for an explanation as to why FBI would
not investigate this case without ever having received any supporting
evidence/witnesses, but his office never responded.
On February 2, 2009, I
wrote a letter Department
of Labor Inspector General Heddell requesting specific information that had
previously been denied via FOIA requests to the PBGC Inspector General, but his
office never responded to this letter.
On February 6, 2009, I
wrote a letterto Attorney
General Holder advising him of the events of February 2nd, while asking for his
assistance in this matter.
On February 7, 2009, I
wrote a letterto SSA
Federal Judge Hughes asking him to forward my appeals court transcripts to the
Department of Justice for review since I had been turned away at the door at FBI
Chicago on February 2nd. Judge Hughes
never responded to this letter.
In April 2009, I was
advised by email by the
Department of Transportation Inspector General that there was no record of my
April 2006 FAA Whistle Blower Protection Report, so I electronically filed
another report, which included the affidavit mentioned below and received an
email response that the allegations surrounding my case were under investigation
by that office (Hotline Case Number 09IH-C24-000).
On May 8, 2009, I
received a letter from DOJ
Kaiser in response to my February 6th letter to Attorney General Holder advising
me to contact the Atlanta office of the FBI if I had criminal information to
report. Since I had been advised the
same in July 2006 by DOJ Toner and FBI Anderson in May 2007, and since the
Chicago FBI office had turned me away in February 2009 without looking at
evidence, it did not make sense that I should be required to report to the
Atlanta FBI Field Office. For what
purpose? To be turned away again?
On May 20, 2009, I wrote
a letter to FBI
Kaiser inquiring as to the necessity that I report alleged white-collar
criminality to the Atlanta FBI Field Office when the Chicago FBI Field Office
already advised that the Department of Justice had no intent of investigating
this matter, even though no evidence/witness testimony had been reviewed. I never received a response to this
letter.
On June 12,
2009, I wrote a letterwith an
attachedaffidavit for
inclusion as part of congressional public record to Senator Dorgan concerning
his upcoming June 17th hearing regarding the Colgan Air 3407, since I was
advised by his staffer, Rich Swayze, that I would not be permitted to testify as
a witness, even though the safety issues that I had addressed in my 2006 FAA
Whistle Blower Report, which was ‘lost’
were critically germane to the
issues surrounding this crash with regard to flight crew scheduling and
fatigue.
On June 17, 2009, in an
unsigned letter
received from the Operations Sector of the Office of the Department of Justice
Inspector General Fine, it was stated that “This office does not have
jurisdiction in the matters that you describe; therefore we are unable to assist
you.” This was in response to my June
17, 2009 letter to this office, which detailed the chronological events listed
above and more.
On December 12, 2009, I
wrote a joint letterto
Department of Justice Inspector General Fine, Department of Homeland Security
Inspector General Skinner, and Department of Transportation Inspector General
Scovel reiterating the nightmarish stonewalling of my case the past three years,
while requesting their good offices to respond to my repeated requests for
assistance. To date, I have not received a
response.
As stated
above, on November 3, 2009, SEC IG Kotz
wrote a letter to me
advising that the Securities and Exchange Commission was remiss in not
investigating my originally filed October 2006 Sarbanes-Oxley
report.
The office of
the Department of Transportation Inspector General Scovel is still investigating
my allegations filed in my April 2009 FAA Whistle Blower Report eight month
later, even though I was advised by Scott Harding in this office that I would
have a prompt response within 30 days, but that sometimes the investigation
lasts as long as six months. This office
is two month overdue from the date promised and
almost four years late from the date of the initial
report. The lives of fifty passengers of
Colgan Air 3407 may have been spared
had the FAA reacted to my 2006 report concerning crew rest, fatigue, and
reckless scheduling of aircrew.
It is for the
reasons stated above that I herein most respectfully request the full support
and cooperation of Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller,
District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and Chicago FBI Special Agent-in-Charge
Robert Grant to join in this investigation, while giving just consideration to
the information contained in the attached affidavits, as well as other available
evidence and witness testimony in support of the Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation of alleged corruption in the United Airlines post-9/11
Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If this request
is denied, then it is most respectfully requested that the reason(s) for the
denial be provided to me in writing.
The past
several years of my life has seen my family, career, reputation, and finances
destroyed for speaking out as an FAA/Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower. My 35-year career in naval/commercial
aviation crash-landed in the end due to my honest reporting. I am divorced, my adult children alienated,
and I am financially bankrupt. I have
asked myself of late if my efforts were truly worth it, given the horrifying
state of my personal life and the disastrous state of affairs in government and
this country.
The Bradley
Birkenfeld and Harvey Markopolos stories are much more
horrendous.
I am a
law-abiding, honest and patriotic U.S. citizen who has served with distinction
in the U.S. Navy as an officer and naval aviator. In doing so, I took an oath of office to
support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies
foreign and domestic. The President of
the United States and his cabinet and all 535 members of congress and others
have sworn the same allegiance to this sacred document.
During the
past eight years, I have merely embraced federal laws and regulations, my first
amendment rights of freedom of speech, and our national motto “In God We Trust”
to garner the spiritual courage to press forward during this horrific ordeal for
me and my broken family. The
Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association motto is “Patriotism and Freedom of
Speech in Action”, which is in consonance with my whistleblowing actions as
well. Our ‘special interests’ are the
millions who travel by commercial air and not the interests represented by
K-Street lobbyist and others.
Given what
allegedly transpired during the post-9/11 bankruptcy, it appears that there are
those in government who may have turned a blind eye to alleged white-collar
criminality by ‘domestic enemies’ who have infiltrated many government and
corporate offices throughout our country.
On December
28, 2009, I was in New York City and as I looked out at Lady Liberty in New York
Harbor, I imagined that I could see tears streaming down the cheeks of what this
monument once represented. My heart was
heavy as I rode in the cab on the way to the offices of Mainstream Media USA to
share the tragic story of the past eight years of my life. Given my past experiences as a federal
whistleblower, as well as those of other patriots in this country who have
spoken out in the name of the law, perhaps the U.S. government should give due
consideration to dismantlement of this sacred shrine that once represented the
beacon of hope shining brightly on the hill for other nations to emulate. With our fall from grace as such the past
decade, perhaps Lady Liberty has become a national embarrassment for
many.
In 2003, as a
United Airlines B-777 captain, I alleged that RICO laws were possibly being
violated during bankruptcy, which impinged upon my ability as a captain to
report safety and security frailties in accordance with Federal Aviation
Regulations due to financial and other pressures being exerted on the Air Line
Pilots Association, which endangered the lives of aircrew members and passengers
alike.
Kindly review
the allegations of the attached affidavits, as the information contained therein
with supporting evidence and witness testimony is available for perusal by the
Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.
If my
Sarbanes-Oxley allegations are proven true and 9/11 was, in fact, exploited for
financial gain by the few on the backs of the many hard-working United Airlines
employees who gave the shirt off their backs to salvage the airline, then it
would appear that our ‘domestic enemies’ have made money the only ‘god’ they
trust.
May the Good
Lord bless, protect, and help the United States of America before it is too
late.
“Let us go
forth and lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing
that here on earth God’s work must truly be our
own.”
Encl: Because of the extensive correspondence
referenced in this letter, the enclosures have been posted on the Whistleblowing
Airline Employees Association website for your
perusal, which is being read/downloaded in over 40 countries around the
world.
Of particular
note, it is most respectfully requested that the following enclosures be
reviewed in this case:
The Honorable Lanny
Breuer – Asst AG
Robert Mueller – Director
Department of
Justice - Criminal Division Federal Bureau of Investigation
950 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW J.
Edgar Hoover Building
Washington, DC
20530 935
Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Patrick J.
Fitzgerald – U.S. Attorney Robert D.
Grant
Northern District of
Illinois – Eastern Division
Special Agent-in-Charge
U.S. Department of
Justice
Chicago Federal Bureau of
Investigation
219 South Dearborn
Street – 5th Floor 2111
West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, Illinois
60604
Chicago, Illinois 60608
SUBJ: SEC INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED UNITED
AIRLINES BANKRUPTCY CORRUPTION
Dear Honorable Mary
Schapiro and Gentlemen,
I currently serve as
national public spokesperson for the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association, an
international grassroots airline safety and security advocacy group representing
the interests and concerns of employees from the airline industry, Federal
Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration, whose
‘special interests’ are the millions who travel by commercial air. Our goal is to support the FAA mission
statement of in making our aerospace system “the safest, most efficient
aerospace system in the world”.
In support of this
goal and our organization, several notable members of prominent whistleblower
organizations recently endorsed our honest efforts:
Tom Devine – Legal Director, Government Accountability
Project (GAP)
“Dan Hanley’s
leadership of the Whistleblowing Airlines Employees Association personifies why
whistleblowers make a difference keeping bureaucracies and politicians honest,
and warning the public when they’re not. His commitment to public service is
cheerfully relentless and unqualified. As long as he is breathing, he is
fighting bureaucratic abuses of power that betray the public trust,” stated Tom
Devine, GAP legal director.
David Colapinto – General Counsel, National Whistleblower
Center (NWC)
“Dan Hanley
is an effective champion for advancing the rights of whistleblowers. Dan’s
tireless work on behalf of airline employees, and his effective voice as a
national spokesman on behalf of the Whistleblowing Airlines Employees
Association, is vital to protect the rights of all employees to expose illegal
conduct by their employers. Dan has been on the front lines in the battle to
hold our nation’s airlines accountable for lapses in airline safety, threats to
national security and violations of law.
Additionally, Dan is helping to ignite a
growing grass-roots movement of citizens, whistleblowers and activists to
support the enactment of strong whistleblower protections for both government
and private industry employees. We whole-heartedly support and appreciate Dan’s
efforts and look forward to working with him to accomplish long-overdue goals of
effective government reforms and stronger whistleblower
laws.”
POPULAR INTEGRITY
AWARD
Additionally, I was recently honored with an ethics
award in the grassroots category presented by “Power
Over Poverty Under
Laws of America Restored”
(POPULAR). Members of this nonprofit corporation are committed to helping poor
and other disadvantaged people access to affordable and competent legal
representation, appropriate judicial oversight, and important civil and criminal
justice system reforms.
Grassroots
Advocacy Category:
Captain Dan Hanley of the “Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association” for his relentless
advocacy to ultimately keep the skies safe for millions of air travelers,
culminating with a recent commitment by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission to consider alleged improprieties attendant to the United Airlines
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Finally, on
January 28, 2010, my name and our association recently appeared as one of 352
organizations and corporations in an open letter sent to President Obama and
members of Congress supporting swift action restore strong and comprehensive
whistleblower rights.
President
Obama campaigned on promises of greater openness of government and enhanced
protection for federal whistleblowers.
When President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 into law, he
proclaimed this legislation to be the “most far-reaching reforms in American
business practices since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt”. This law, supposedly designed to protect
corporate whistleblowers, has not served me well in that regard. It is just a trap, and secretive DOJ
‘deferred prosecution agreements’
make it even more so. The law must be
repealed or amended to protect honest whistleblowers who speak out.
Reference
exhibits to the following may be found on the Whistleblowing Airline Employees
Association Exhibit Filepage of our website, but are hyperlinked below
for your reading convenience:
On November 3, 2009,
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Inspector General H. David Kotz advised me
in a letterthat the Securities and Exchange Commission had initiated an
investigation in response to a letter sent dated January 29, 2009 requesting
said investigation concerning my Sarbanes-Oxley filing in October 2007 of
alleged issues of corruption associated with the United Airlines post-9/11
bankruptcy.
On November 23, 2009, I
sent a letterof inquiry to Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division Lanny
Breuer asking as to whether a ‘deferred prosecution agreement’ had been entered
into with the management of United Airlines concerning corruption issues
surrounding their bankruptcy. To date,
this office has not responded to this inquiry.
On January 22, 2010, I
wrote a joint letter to
Department of Labor Inspector General Gordon S. Heddell, Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) Inspector General
Rebecca Anne Batts, and PBGC Acting Director Vincent K. Snowbarger requesting
that specific information be forwarded to me and the office of SEC Commissioner
Mary Schapiro as part of the ongoing investigation.
On January 24, 2010, I
wrote a letter to Social
Security Administration Inspector General Patrick P. O’Carroll requesting that
he forward a file pertaining to my Social Security Disability Income appeal,
which included transcripts of my sworn testimony before Social Security
Administrative Judge F. Jefferson Hughes in Atlanta, Georgia on July 23, 2008,
some of which said testimony pertains to elements of this
investigation.
On January 25, 2010, I
wrote a joint letter to
Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson and Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner requesting that they forward to me and the office of SEC
Commissioner Mary Schapiro the information previously requested by me in a
letter dated February 2, 2009 to IG Thorson, which went unanswered by his
office.
Please allow
me to digress to 2006 to reflect on the legal and political path that I have
journeyed the past 38 months in an effort with others to bring the truth to
light and serve justice on alleged white-collar criminal activity associated
with the United Airlines bankruptcy without
success.
On April 12, 2006, I sent
a joint letter to
then Attorney General Gonzales, Department of Homeland Security Chertoff, and
Transportation Secretary Mineta, advising them that I was a federal
whistleblower who had reported on air safety and security issues via a filed FAA
Whistleblower Protection Report and also of the establishment of the grassroots
Whistleblowing United Pilots
Association, while asking for their cooperation and
assistance.
On May 12, 2006, I
received a letterfrom DHS Bryan, which ignored the fact that I wanted to report security
issue frailties, but assured me that the Department of Transportation would
handle my FAA Whistleblower Report in a timely
manner.
The
Department of Transportation never responded to my April 12th letter and ‘lost’
my FAA Whistleblower Protection Report.
On November 13, 2006, I
wrote a letter to
Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Government Oversight Committee,
advising him of issues pertaining to this case.
Additionally, I had numerous phone conversations and email exchanges with
his staffer Matt Siegler, who repeatedly advised me that Congressman Waxman’s
staff would not investigate this matter.
On July 3, 2006, I
received a letter from DOJ
Toner advising me to contact my nearest FBI Field Office if I had criminal
information available for review, while concurring that the Department of
Transportation would administrate the FAA Whistle Blower Protection Report that
I had mentioned in the April 12th letter.
On November 18, 2006, I
wrote a joint letter to
Senators Reid and Durbin and then Senator Obama advising them of the
availability of criminal evidence associated with this case, while requesting
their assistance in bringing this case to public
light.
On November 20, 2006, I
wrote a letter to District
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald advising him of this same information, while asking
for legal intercession.
On December 11, 2006, I
received a letter from
District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s office advising me to contact the
office of Chicago FBI if I had criminal evidence/witnesses
available to support my allegations.
On January 25, 2007, I
sent letters to all
Democratic Senators who sat on the Senate Judiciary and Senate Pension
Committees regarding issues of judicial and pension termination corruption, but
did not receive a single response.
On January 25, 2007, I sent letters to all
Democratic congressmen who sat on the House Judiciary and Pension Committees
regarding issues of judicial and pension termination corruption, but did not
receive a single response.
On April 1, 2007, I wrote
a letter to Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant advising his office of this same
information.
On May 4, 2007, I
received a letter from Ms.
Joan Currie-Leonard, Senator Obama’s Special Assistant in his Chicago Office, in
response to the joint letter I had sent on November 18th advising me to contact
my home state of Georgia representatives concerning this matter since I was not
an Illinois resident, even though the alleged criminality took place in the
state of Illinois.
On May 16, 2007, I
received a letter from FBI
Washington Public Corruption Unit Anderson in response to the April 1st letter
that I had mailed to Mr. Grant advising me to contact the Atlanta FBI office
with information concerning this matter.
Because I did not physically possess criminal evidence nor have access to
key witnesses in this case, and because I was made aware that Mr. Michael Lynch
had already briefed the office of Patrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago FBI, and the
Chicago Crime Commission on this matter as a result of a filed federal
complaint, I felt that my visit to the Atlanta FBI Field Office would serve no
purpose at that time.
On September 1, 2007, I
wrote a letter to then
Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division Alice Fisher apprising her of the
same facts concerning the availability of evidence/witnesses in this
case.
On October 24, 2007, I once again wrote
a letter to then
Senator Obama’s Special Assistant Joan Currie-Leonard, only this time as
spokesperson for the Whistleblowing United Pilots Association, detailing the
information that was available, while requesting that Senator Obama launch an
investigation into this matter.
On November 6, 2007, in a
letter response to
me, Ms. Leonard once again deferred me to my home state congressional
representatives in Georgia.
On October 6, 2007, I
received an unsolicited letter from my
home state of Georgia Congressman Westmoreland advising me that his staffer Jean
Stoddard would look into this matter and do everything to assist
me.
On October 18, 2007, I
wrote a letter to SEC
Commissioner Christopher Cox, with enclosures, declaring myself a Sarbanes-Oxley
whistleblower, while demanding an investigation into this case and insisting on
guarantees of enforcement of the protective provisions of this
law.
On October 19, 2007, I
wrote letters to Senators Kennedy and
Leahy, and
Congressmen Waxman, Miller, Conyers, and
Westmoreland
advising them that I had filed for Sarbanes-Oxley protection, but their offices
never responded to offer me any assistance.
Additionally, on this date, I wrote my Congressman Westmoreland advising
him of this fact, but his office never responded.
On October 22, 2007, I also received an
unsolicited letter from
Senator Chambliss advising me that “I have contacted the Department of Justice
on your behalf and will certainly share their response with you when I receive
it”.
On October 25, 2007, I
sent a letter with
enclosures to Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, which contained the same information sent to Mr. Cox, and
requesting protection under this law. I
was advised in subsequent phone conversations with his staffer, Kata Sabenga,
that due to staff limitations, Senator Levin would be unable to assist
me.
On November 5, 2007, I
received a letter response
from Senator Chambliss advising me “While I regret to learn of your
difficulties, I, as a United States Senator, have no jurisdiction over matters
such as these”.
On November 5, 2007, I
also received a letter from SEC
Senior Counsel Juliet Gardner advising me that “I have passed your views on to
the people at the SEC who specialize in the issues you’ve raised. If they have any questions or wish to respond
to your comments, they will contact you”.
On December 12, 2007, I
received a cover letter from DOJ
Toner with an enclosed letter from Deputy Assistant Attorney General John
Keeney, in response to my April 1st letter to Assistant AG Fisher, which totally
skirted every issue that I addressed in that
letter.
On December 18, 2007, I received a copy of
this same letter from Mr. Keeney from my Congressman
Westmoreland.
On
February 10, 2008, I sent a letter to
Assistant Attorney General Keeney requesting that he review the content of my
letter to Asst AG Fisher, as I felt that his letter did not respond to my
questions, but never received a response from his
office.
On February 14, 2008, I phone-contacted
the office of the Chicago FBI and filed a federal complaint (Complaint #
2008-9580) with FBI Agent David Barusko at the intake unit desk, while asking
him to keep the file open pending future submission of evidence/witness list
with guaranteed witness protection for informants. During this phone conversation, I was advised
by Agent Barusko that a secret meeting could be arranged at an undisclosed
location of our choice in the Chicago area wherein informants could be
questioned and evidence collected, but that DOJ would have to review the case
before witness protection could be afforded due to the expense of federal
marshal protection.
Additionally, on February 14, 2008, after
numerous phone conversations with Senator Leahy staffer Matt Robinson, I emailed
to him issues pertaining to this case regarding alleged judicial corruption, but
no assistance was rendered by this office.
On February 21, 2008, I
once again petitioned Congressman Waxman staffer Matt Siegler via email to assist in
this matter, but he never responded to my call for help. (Please scroll to the
bottom of the page)
On February 22, 2008, I
wrote a letter to Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Grant advising him of my phone conversation with
Agent Barusko, while detailing the protections we would need to meet at an
undisclosed location of our choice, but his office never
responded.
On February 26, 2008, I
also received the same copy of Mr. Keeney’s letter from
Senator Chambliss.
On July 23, 2008, I appeared under oath
before Social Security Administrative Judge F. Jefferson Hughes regarding my
Social Security Disability Income appeal hearing, which I claimed that I was not
entitled to SSDI due to the fact I was fully capable of employment, but not as a
pilot since I had been ‘permanently grounded’.
During this hearing, I detailed my legal and political plight the past
several years, which included allegations of white-collar criminality associated
with the United Airlines bankruptcy that I had been attempting to report to
competent legal and political authorities.
I felt at the time that since Judge Hughes had recently served as a
Department of Justice attorney, since he was an officer of the court, he would
be obliged to report this alleged wrongdoing to the Department of Justice. The entire testimony was digitally-recorded
and I obtained a copy of the court transcripts a few days after the
hearing.
On January 25, 2009, I
wrote a letter to
Department of Transportation Inspector General Scovel advising him that my April
2006 FAA Whistle Blower Report had never been administrated. I subsequently received an email response
that there was no record of the report and that no further action would be taken
by the DOT IG office regarding this matter.
On January 26, 2009,
after phone conversations with staffer Brian Downey, I wrote Senator Grassley a
letter advising
him that I was an FAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Social Security fraud whistleblower,
but his office never responded to this letter, nor to subsequent voice mail
messages left for Mr. Downey.
On January 28,
2009, I wrote a
letterto Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General Kotz advising
him that my filed October 2007 Sarbanes-Oxley report had been ignored by the SEC
and petitioned his office for assistance.
On January 29, 2009, I filed a Social
Security fraud report with the Social Security Office of Inspector General
O’Connell concerning my SSDI appeal.
On January 30, 2009, I called the Chicago
FBI office to confirm that my filed federal complaint of February 14, 2008 was
still an open file, which I was assured that it
was.
On January 31, 2009, I
wrote a letter to
President Obama detailing the events of the past two years since I had written
his Illinois senate office in the fall of 2006, while petitioning his office for
support, since he then had jurisdiction over his relevant cabinet members. To date, I have not received a White House
response to this letter.
On January 31, 2009, I
sent a letter to
Department of Justice Inspector General Fine detailing all of the issues
addressed above, while asking for his legal assistance in this
matter.
On February 2, 2009, I flew to Chicago,
rented a car, and drove to the Chicago FBI office to deliver evidence and the
names of witness to be included in the complaint file, but was advised by the
reviewing agent that the FBI was not going to investigate my case
without ever having reviewed the tiniest shred of evidence nor
interviewing a single witness.
On the
evening of February 2, 2009, I wrote a letter to Chicago
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Grant asking for an explanation as to why FBI would
not investigate this case without ever having received any supporting
evidence/witnesses, but his office never responded.
On February 2, 2009, I
wrote a letter Department
of Labor Inspector General Heddell requesting specific information that had
previously been denied via FOIA requests to the PBGC Inspector General, but his
office never responded to this letter.
On February 6, 2009, I
wrote a letter to Attorney
General Holder advising him of the events of February 2nd, while asking for his
assistance in this matter.
On February 7, 2009, I
wrote a letter to SSA
Federal Judge Hughes asking him to forward my appeals court transcripts to the
Department of Justice for review since I had been turned away at the door at FBI
Chicago on February 2nd. Judge Hughes
never responded to this letter.
In April 2009, I was
advised by email by the
Department of Transportation Inspector General that there was no record of my
April 2006 FAA Whistle Blower Protection Report, so I electronically filed
another report, which included the affidavit mentioned below and received an
email response that the allegations surrounding my case were under investigation
by that office (Hotline Case Number 09IH-C24-000).
On May 8, 2009, I
received a letter from DOJ
Kaiser in response to my February 6th letter to Attorney General Holder advising
me to contact the Atlanta office of the FBI if I had criminal information to
report. Since I had been advised the
same in July 2006 by DOJ Toner and FBI Anderson in May 2007, and since the
Chicago FBI office had turned me away in February 2009 without looking at
evidence, it did not make sense that I should be required to report to the
Atlanta FBI Field Office. For what
purpose? To be turned away again?
On May 20, 2009, I wrote
a letter to FBI
Kaiser inquiring as to the necessity that I report alleged white-collar
criminality to the Atlanta FBI Field Office when the Chicago FBI Field Office
already advised that the Department of Justice had no intent of investigating
this matter, even though no evidence/witness testimony had been reviewed. I never received a response to this
letter.
On June 12,
2009, I wrote a letter with an
attachedaffidavit for
inclusion as part of congressional public record to Senator Dorgan concerning
his upcoming June 17th hearing regarding the Colgan Air 3407, since I was
advised by his staffer, Rich Swayze, that I would not be permitted to testify as
a witness, even though the safety issues that I had addressed in my 2006 FAA
Whistle Blower Report, which was ‘lost’
were critically germane to the
issues surrounding this crash with regard to flight crew scheduling and
fatigue.
On June 17, 2009, in an
unsigned letter
received from the Operations Sector of the Office of the Department of Justice
Inspector General Fine, it was stated that “This office does not have
jurisdiction in the matters that you describe; therefore we are unable to assist
you.” This was in response to my June
17, 2009 letter to this office, which detailed the chronological events listed
above and more.
On December 12, 2009, I
wrote a joint letter to
Department of Justice Inspector General Fine, Department of Homeland Security
Inspector General Skinner, and Department of Transportation Inspector General
Scovel reiterating the nightmarish stonewalling of my case the past three years,
while requesting their good offices to respond to my repeated requests for
assistance. To date, I have not received a
response.
As stated
above, on November 3, 2009, SEC IG Kotz
wrote a letter to me
advising that the Securities and Exchange Commission was remiss in not
investigating my originally filed October 2006 Sarbanes-Oxley
report.
The office of
the Department of Transportation Inspector General Scovel is still investigating
my allegations filed in my April 2009 FAA Whistle Blower Report eight month
later, even though I was advised by Scott Harding in this office that I would
have a prompt response within 30 days, but that sometimes the investigation
lasts as long as six months. This office
is two month overdue from the date promised and
almost four years late from the date of the initial
report. The lives of fifty passengers of
Colgan Air 3407 may have been spared
had the FAA reacted to my 2006 report concerning crew rest, fatigue, and
reckless scheduling of aircrew.
It is for the
reasons stated above that I herein most respectfully request the full support
and cooperation of Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller,
District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and Chicago FBI Special Agent-in-Charge
Robert Grant to join in this investigation, while giving just consideration to
the information contained in the attached affidavits, as well as other available
evidence and witness testimony in support of the Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation of alleged corruption in the United Airlines post-9/11
Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If this request
is denied, then it is most respectfully requested that the reason(s) for the
denial be provided to me in writing.
The past
several years of my life has seen my family, career, reputation, and finances
destroyed for speaking out as an FAA/Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower. My 35-year career in naval/commercial
aviation crash-landed in the end due to my honest reporting. I am divorced, my adult children alienated,
and I am financially bankrupt. I have
asked myself of late if my efforts were truly worth it, given the horrifying
state of my personal life and the disastrous state of affairs in government and
this country.
The Bradley
Birkenfeld and Harvey Markopolos stories are much more
horrendous.
I am a
law-abiding, honest and patriotic U.S. citizen who has served with distinction
in the U.S. Navy as an officer and naval aviator. In doing so, I took an oath of office to
support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies
foreign and domestic. The President of
the United States and his cabinet and all 535 members of congress and others
have sworn the same allegiance to this sacred document.
During the
past eight years, I have merely embraced federal laws and regulations, my first
amendment rights of freedom of speech, and our national motto “In God We Trust”
to garner the spiritual courage to press forward during this horrific ordeal for
me and my broken family. The
Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association motto is “Patriotism and Freedom of
Speech in Action”, which is in consonance with my whistleblowing actions as
well. Our ‘special interests’ are the
millions who travel by commercial air and not the interests represented by
K-Street lobbyist and others.
Given what
allegedly transpired during the post-9/11 bankruptcy, it appears that there are
those in government who may have turned a blind eye to alleged white-collar
criminality by ‘domestic enemies’ who have infiltrated many government and
corporate offices throughout our country.
On December
28, 2009, I was in New York City and as I looked out at Lady Liberty in New York
Harbor, I imagined that I could see tears streaming down the cheeks of what this
monument once represented. My heart was
heavy as I rode in the cab on the way to the offices of Mainstream Media USA to
share the tragic story of the past eight years of my life. Given my past experiences as a federal
whistleblower, as well as those of other patriots in this country who have
spoken out in the name of the law, perhaps the U.S. government should give due
consideration to dismantlement of this sacred shrine that once represented the
beacon of hope shining brightly on the hill for other nations to emulate. With our fall from grace as such the past
decade, perhaps Lady Liberty has become a national embarrassment for
many.
In 2003, as a
United Airlines B-777 captain, I alleged that RICO laws were possibly being
violated during bankruptcy, which impinged upon my ability as a captain to
report safety and security frailties in accordance with Federal Aviation
Regulations due to financial and other pressures being exerted on the Air Line
Pilots Association, which endangered the lives of aircrew members and passengers
alike.
Kindly review
the allegations of the attached affidavits, as the information contained therein
with supporting evidence and witness testimony is available for perusal by the
Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.
If my
Sarbanes-Oxley allegations are proven true and 9/11 was, in fact, exploited for
financial gain by the few on the backs of the many hard-working United Airlines
employees who gave the shirt off their backs to salvage the airline, then it
would appear that our ‘domestic enemies’ have made money the only ‘god’ they
trust.
May the Good
Lord bless, protect, and help the United States of America before it is too
late.
“Let us go
forth and lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing
that here on earth God’s work must truly be our
own.”
~John
F. Kennedy ~
Very
respectfully submitted,
Captain Dan
Hanley
National
Public Spokesperson
Whistleblowing Airline Employees
Association
http://www.airline-whistleblowers.org
Encl: Because of the extensive correspondence
referenced in this letter, the enclosures have been posted on the Whistleblowing
Airline Employees Association website for your
perusal, which is being read/downloaded in over 40 countries around the
world.
Of particular
note, it is most respectfully requested that the following enclosures be
reviewed in this case:
Washington Examiner reporter Barbara Hollingsworth article dated
December 3, 2009
Affidavit dated October 11, 2006 of Michael W.
Lynch
ERW Living Trust of Richard E.
Williams
Letter dated November 20, 2006 to District Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald
Affidavit dated October 25, 2007 of Daniel W.
Hanley
Affidavit dated June 2009 of Daniel W.
Hanley
Letter dated January 31, 2009 to President
Obama
Letter dated January 31, 2009 to Department of Justice Glenn A.
Fine
Letter dated February 2, 2009 to Chicago FBI Special
Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant
Letter dated February 6, 2009 to Attorney General Eric
Holder
Letter
dated June 17, 2009 from DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine
(below)
Letter dated November 23, 2009 to Asst Attorney General Criminal
Division Lanny Breuer
Letter dated December 12, 2009 to Inspector General DOT Scovel,
DHS Skinner, and DOJ Fine
Cc: Vice
President Joe Biden
Rahm Emanuel – Chief of Staff, White
House
The Honorable Calvin Scovel – Inspector
General, Department of Transportation
The Honorable Patrick O’Carroll –
Inspector General, Social Security Administration
The Honorable Gordon S. Heddell –Inspector General,
Department of Labor
The
Honorable Eric Thorson – Inspector General, Department of
Treasury
The Honorable Ray LaHood –
Secretary, Department of Transportation
The Honorable Hilda Solis –
Secretary, Department of Labor
The Honorable Timothy
Geithner – Secretary, Department of Treasury
Senator Harry Reid – Senate
Majority Leader
Senator Richard Durbin –
Senate Majority Whip
Senator Carl Levin –
Chairman, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Senator Patrick Leahy –
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
Senator Charles Grassley –
Ranking Member, Finance Committee
Senator Joseph Lieberman –
Chairman, Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Senator Daniel Akaka –
Chairman, Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Subcom.
Senator Jay Rockefeller –
Chairman, Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Committee
Senator Saxby Chambliss –
Georgia U.S. Senator
Senator Johnny Isaakson –
Georgia U.S. Senator
Congress Lynn Westmoreland
– Georgia U.S. Representative
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
– Speaker, House of Representatives
Congressman John Conyers,
Jr. – Chairman, House Judiciary Committee
Congressman Henry Waxman –
Chairman, Government Oversight Committee
Congressman George Miller –
Chairman, Health, Education, Labor, Pension
Committee
Congressman Jerry Costello – Chairman,
House Transportation Subcommittee
Randy Babbitt
–Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
Ms. Rebecca Anne Batts –
Inspector General, Pension Benefit Guarantee
Corporation
Mr. Vincent K. Snowbarger –
Acting Director, Pension Benefit Guarantee
Corporation
Tom Devine, Legal Director
– Government Accountability Project
(GAP)
Danielle Brian – Executive
Director, Project on Government Oversight
(POGO)
David Colapinto – General
Counsel, National Whistleblower Center
(NWC)
