More heartbreak for FAA whistleblowers

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Members of the FAA Whistleblowers Alliance were expecting more from Clayton Foushee Jr., head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Audit and Evaluation. Hoping that Foushee was finally willing to do something about the relentless retaliation reported by former FAA employees forced out for doing their jobs, they were once again disappointed. “Older cases would have lesser priority,” FWA Executive Director Gabe Bruno, who attended the meeting last week at the downtown offices of the Government Accountability Project, told The Washington Examiner. The former FAA manager was forced to retire after uncovering a fraudulent airline mechanic certification scheme in which 33 “mechanics” shared the same address in Saudi Arabia.

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