Chuck Grassley has made a name for himself in Washington with his longtime support for whistleblowers, but he’s coming under criticism from Democrats and good government advocates who say Grassley has been conspicuously silent as the Trump administration has investigated the president's perceived enemies, fired agents who worked on politically sensitive cases and upended the Justice Department’s independence.
Two alleged whistleblowers are suing Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Co. and its affiliates for alleged racketeering, wrongful termination and concealment of information from state regulators.
UI agreed to implement training and pay over $16,000 to resolve claims that X-rays submitted to Medicare didn’t meet requirements of having an attending physician review them.
Candidates running for to serve as Iowa’s taxpayer watchdog both worked in state government and say they have demonstrated their ability to hold government agencies accountable for waste, fraud and abuse.
Four years after Jeff Dettbarn raised concerns about veterans’ diagnostic exams being canceled without doctors’ orders at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City and two years after he testified about it before Congress, the VA ordered him back to the same unit with the same bosses and no protections as a whistleblower.
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