Whistleblower Complaint alleges more bullying, ethical violations under Lander’s leadership- report
This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rachel Wallace, and was originally published here.
Just over a month after the famed yet controversial geneticist and Broad Institute founding director Eric Lander resigned from his role at the White House over harassing staff, a whistleblower report has emerged — and while Lander and the White House dispute its findings, it claims that Lander had gone further than what was initially alleged against him.
According to the Washington Post, the Government Accountability Project filed a whistleblower complaint to the US Office of Special Council and House/Senate committees Thursday on behalf of anonymous Office of Science and Technology Policy staffers, headed by Rachel Wallace, once the science office’s general counsel before being demoted to deputy counsel — and currently COO.
Wallace had previously gone on the record, telling Politico in its original report on a White House investigation into Lander that he “retaliated against staff for speaking out and asking questions by calling them names, disparaging them, embarrassing them in front of their peers, laughing at them, shunning them, taking away their duties, and replacing them or driving them out of the agency. Numerous women have been left in tears, traumatized, and feeling vulnerable and isolated.”
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