The objectives of OSC Watch are to expose US Office of Special Counsel lawbreaking since 1989 in failing to protect, as required by 5 USC 1214, the 10,000 or more federal employees who sought its protection from prohibited personnel practices (PPP’s) - not limited to whistleblower reprisal type PPP, but including the 11 (of 12) types of PPP for which OSC has jurisdiction - particularly the 3000 or so who subsequently filed whistleblower appeals at MSPB; along with MSPB’s enabling lawbreaking failure since 1989, per 5 USC 1204, to conduct oversight of OSC’s compliance with 5 USC 1214;

About OSCWatch

The objectives of OSC Watch:

  • Expose OSC lawbreaking since 1989 in failing to protect, as required by 5 USC 1214, the 10,000 or more federal employees who sought its protection from prohibited personnel practices (PPP’s) - not limited to whistleblower reprisal type PPP, but including the 11 (of 12) types of PPP for which OSC has jurisdiction - particularly the 3000 or so who subsequently filed whistleblower appeals at MSPB; along with MSPB’s enabling lawbreaking failure since 1989, per 5 USC 1204, to conduct oversight of OSC’s compliance with 5 USC 1214;
  • Stop OSC lawbreaking and MSPB enabling lawbreaking, and
  • Obtain some measure of justice for the 10,000 or more direct victims of OSC’s lawbreaking since 1989.

OSC Watch Steering Committee

Joe Carson, PE, Department of Energy (DOE)
Chairman/ Congressional Liaison-OSCWatch.org

Joe Carson has been a licensed professional engineer (PE) for over 20 years. PE’s have a positive legal and professional obligation to “blow whistles,” when necessary, to protect public health and safety in the performance of their professional duties, regardless of possible workplace retribution. He has been a nuclear safety engineer in Department of Energy (DOE) since 1990, before that he served as an engineering division officer on nuclear submarines for six years and worked for 7 years at commercial nuclear power plants. He has “prevailed” in numerous whistleblower-related litigation at MSPB, but because OSC will not comply with its statutory duty to protect him from reprisal, he is only a “speeding ticket” to DOE. His concerns included some involving the safeguards and security of America’s nuclear stockpile, under DOE’s custody.

His whistleblowing about health and safety issues in DOE, and his confronting DOE’s unlawful reprisal, contributed to the passage of the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. About 25,000 disabled, diseased, or prematurely deceased DOE workers or their survivors have received a measure of compensation for being allowed to work in highly hazardous situations, without their knowledge or proper protection in DOE facilities during the Cold War. Joe belongs to several major engineering professional societies and co-founded the Affiliation of Christian Engineers.

Black, P. Jeffrey, Federal Air Marshal (FAMS), DHS/TSA
Vice-Chairman/Congressional Liaison-OSCWatch.org

P. Jeffrey Black is currently a front-line Federal Air Marshal deterring and preventing terrorist activities and other incidents onboard commercial aircraft. He is a former Air Force Security Specialist, Naval Command Criminal Investigator, and Border Patrol Agent. In August 2004, Black testified before the Chief Counsel of Oversight and Investigations of the House Judiciary Committee, where he exposed dangerous agency internal policies that promoted aviation security breaches and conditions that seriously jeopardized the health and safety of air marshals, flight crews, and airline passengers. Black has since filed over 20 separate whistleblower complaints to OIG, OPR, and OSC exposing systemic abuses of authority, gross mismanagement, and prohibited personnel practices that were being committed by TSA and FAMS management. As expected, Black is currently receiving severe and continual retaliation from his agency in response to his whistleblowing disclosures –– retaliation that has caused detrimental changes in his official duties, responsibilities, and working conditions.

Traci Hallstrom, Administration, Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management
Director of Communications/Treasurer-OSWatch.org

The DOI-BLM Redding, California Field office has employed Traci Hallstrom since December 1999 working in Administration. She reported serious allegations of wrongdoing, cover-ups by management, misappropriations of funds, contracting fraud and was also Class Agent in an EEO Class complaint filed by 100% of the females in her office in May of 2005 against the managers in her office. She has been retaliated against by the government and is currently on medical leave since December 3rd, 2007. Miss Hallstrom is the Communications Director for OSCWatch.org.

Jeffrey Fudin, Pharm.D.
Executive Chair, Veterans Affairs Whistleblower Coalition (www.VAWBC.com)
Liaison to VAWBC-OSCWatch.org

Dr. Jeffrey Fudin is a two-time graduate from Albany College of Pharmacy/Union University, where he received his Bachelor’s and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees. He completed an American Cancer Society Fellowship in Oncology/Hematology at SUNY Upstate Medical Center. He is a board-certified Diplomat to the American Academy of Pain Management, and a member of several other professional organizations. Aside from his expertise in pain management, Dr. Fudin has been nationally recognized as a federal whistleblower, activities for which he has received extensive national attention. Details may be viewed at http://www.vawhistleblower.com/

Sandalio Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Ret.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
Liaison to NSWC/Congressional Liaison-OSCWatch.org

Sandy Gonzalez retired from the DEA as Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso, Texas Field Division in January 2005 after 32 years in law enforcement. He began his career in 1972 at the local level in Los Angeles County, California and joined the DEA in 1978. He served 12 of his 26 years with DEA in international operations, and was stationed in three foreign countries. In 1999 and again in 2004, as a Senior Executive Service management official, he reported serious allegations of wrongdoing and cover-ups by federal agents and prosecutors in Miami, Florida and El Paso, Texas, and was ignored and retaliated against by the government.

Larry Fisher, Staff Accountant,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Committee Member-OSCWatch.org

Larry Fisher has a 4-year accounting degree and has been a federal accountant for the last 38 years, 25 of which were as an accountant whistleblower. He has a varied background that covers the full gamut of the government’s accounting and systems operation including: basic accounting operations, design and testing of agency-level accounting software, lead Treasury accountant (in liaison with OMB and GAO representatives) responsible for establishing system software requirements used by all Federal agencies, EPA staff accountant responsible for reviewing government-wide accounting standards use by all Federal agencies.

In October 1986, he was so concerned by what he saw he took a one-year unpaid sabbatical to lobby Congress and the Central Agencies (OMB, GAO, Treasury, and GSA) regarding the need for a single integrated accounting and budgeting standard. During the last 17-years of his career at EPA, he has openly questioned both EPA’s and the Central Agencies’ (government-wide) accounting standards and processes and has been retaliated against for the majority of his EPA career. He lost his OSC case against EPA and is currently appealing the dismissal of that case before the MSPB.

Carol Czarkowski, Former Contracting Officer Department of the Navy (DOD)
Congressional Liaison/Secretary-OSCWatch.org

David Nolan, Esq. Former Department of Energy Attorney (DOE),
Legal Advisor-OSCWatch.org

Scott Harrington, Pharm.D.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Committee Member - OSCWatch.org

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