Sometimes, the organization against which a whistleblower brings a claim is in financial trouble by the time the lawsuit is filed. In some cases, bankruptcy proceedings against the company that has been accused of wrongdoing may have already begun. One whistleblower case that is currently in the works involves Altegrity Inc., a parent company, and its bankrupt subsidiary, US Investigations Services (USIS).
Altegrity is the parent company of other businesses besides US Investigations Services. While US Investigations Services is being liquidated through the bankruptcy process, Altegrity plans to keep all of its other businesses in operation. To protect Altegrity’s ability to do this, attorneys for the company have tried to shield the company, its assets, and its leaders against exposure to liability resulting from a whistleblower lawsuit that has been brought against US Investigations Services.
In his whistleblower lawsuit, a former US Investigations Services Employee, Blake Percival, claims that the company was paid tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for work that it never completed, or that it was completed in a substandard fashion. Percival says that US Investigations Services encouraged its employees to essentially dump unfinished security investigations, and to rush through other investigations and mark them as completed as soon as possible in order to obtain maximum compensation. Percival has asked the bankruptcy court judge to refuse to allow US Investigations Services and Altegrity to declare bankruptcy to dodge responsibility for the damage that they have caused. The federal government has announced that it may also seek damages for violations of federal law, and attorneys for the federal government have also asked the bankruptcy court to deny immunity to Altegrity.
Security investigations are an important type of federal government work, and the failure of United States Investigations Services to perform its work properly resulted in several notable errors. For example, it approved Edward Snowden for work at the National Security Agency. It also approved Aaron Alexis for a federal position. Alexis went on to kill twelve people during a shooting at the Washington Naval Yard. The company also exposed multiple thousands of files that contained information belonging to Department of Homeland Security employees during a recent cyber-attack. United States Information Services experienced financial difficulties after the government contracts that had been sustaining it were not renewed, and the company eventually went bankrupt.
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