At an open meeting last week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to approve final rules for expanding and strengthening a program to reward whistleblowers who provide the agency with tips that lead to successful enforcement actions the SEC was able to approve final rules that offer meaningful incentives and protections to whistleblowers. For the disingenuous, the question remains: will the SEC be able to get the information it needs to avert another financial crisis? If anyone believes this is even within the realm of possibility, the SEC is going to need all the whistleblowers it can get. If it’s going to protect investors and “ensure the integrity of our financial markets”, a whistleblower ahs got to be able to count on reasonable protections. As far as “rewards”, isn’t the urge toward self-gratification the fount of human faiblesse which creates the very whistles waiting to be blown by The Brave. In any case, whistleblower protection isn’t close to equal across the board. For anyone with the courage to confront America’s ‘Command and Control’ human infrastructure, the smart money is on: ‘choose your battle’ carefully because your next choice is which attorney to retain…
These days a person of conscience who stands up for moral, ethical behavior in the face of increasingly reprehensible acts that often cross the line into the outright illegal, such a person can expect the worst. And the worst has many forms. In the case of Susan Lindauer it involved an FBI raid, a rigged trial, incarceration in a Communications Management Unit that doubled as a medical prison and more. Here in Portland when police officer Lindsay Hunt documented and then made public actions of training officer, Quency Ho, she is being subjected to psychological analysis and much more. The Oregonian's Maxine Bernstein wrote a little piece yesterday that stands as a model of 'yellow journalism" - not really journalism at all. "Dueling psychological analyses of Lindsay Hunt offered at her federal whistle-blower trial" is the title of Maxine's effort to discredit Hunt and provide cover for the cops. Get this: "a forensic psychiatrist hired by the city of Portland said he found that Hunt suffers from a paranoid personality disorder that didn't result from her job with the Portland Police Bureau. However, he said her mental disorder would prevent her from being a successful police officer in the future. "
Dr. Eugene Klecan, who conducted a two hour, twenty-four minute interview of Hunt and reviewed city depositions taken in the case and other medical records, described Hunt as inordinately suspicious, a perfectionist, and exceptionally rigid person who is hypercritical of other people, tends to misinterpret events and misread motives. He testified that her disorder has been a lifelong condition formed in childhood. And training officer Ho? what pray tell, was the verdict on his psychological profile? It is clear from Hunt's initial account of the abuse Ho inflicted and his general disrespect for the law in general that she is neither lying nor exaggerating. Another example of Portland Police closing ranks to protect one of their own, of the Oregonian leaping into the fray in defense of criminal behavior on the part of one who is sworn to fight crime, and another example of why the role of whistleblower is reserved for those possessed of extraordinary courage and high standards.A reputable website that rates doctors according to patients' experience, Dr. Eugene Klecan achieved the lowest possible score short of zero score in all categories when asked to provide an overall rating on Klecan in seven areas of care and service. Vitals users responded on average with a rating of "Poor" straight down the list.
Texas Cancelled for non-payment 1974 05/19/2010
Washington Retired active out-of-state 1973 05/01/2010
Number of file reviews previously performed: 100+ file reviews
Average monthly hours in direct patient care: Not currently practicing
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