On January 6, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) released its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2024 highlighting the agency’s 2024 accomplishments. The OSC works to protect and empower federal employee whistleblowers by investigating and prosecuting whistleblower retaliation cases and serving as a secure channel for whistleblower disclosures.
“OSC has prioritized the timely review of whistleblower disclosures to ensure that waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality are identified and remedied quickly,” writes Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger in an introductory statement for the report. “For FY 2024, OSC’s whistleblower disclosure work resulted in 34 substantiated instances of wrongdoing. For example, one case found that officials at a VA healthcare clinic jeopardized patient health by incentivizing the overprescription of opioids. OSC’s referral led the healthcare clinic to take steps to ensure that opioids were not overprescribed, thereby increasing the quality of care that veterans received at the clinic.”
In addition to the VA healthcare whistleblower case referenced by Dellinger, the OSC report details a number of whistleblower disclosures it received which “contribut[ed] to improving the efficiency and accountability of government.” Allegations in whistleblowers disclosures highlighted by the OSC report include improper storage of veterans’ personally identifiable information, inadequate communication technology for forest service law...
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