Boeing Whistleblower Awaits Court Date

Vindicated Boeing Whistleblower Awaits Spring Court Date

Gerald Eastman’s Court Date is fast approaching. 
With all of the disclosures of corruption involving his former employer, The Boeing Company, and federal oversight agency FAA, new attention to his allegations of Boeing and FAA wrongdoing is warranted.

What do you do when every avenue open to you within the hierarchy of your contractor employer is a dead end to straightening out wrongdoing you observed going on in your work area, and supervisors?  When in following prescribed channels, you go up the command chain in your company and find that your company not only condones, but also might have been directing your seemingly corrupt supervisors in those problem activities? 

You go to the federal oversight authority, the Federal Aviation Administration.  And if the FAA, itself is so corrupted you cannot get the problems addressed and rectified?  You keep trying, multiples of times.  And if that still doesn’t work?  You go above FAA to Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector General.  And if you can’t get anyone there to cross the corrupt ones? 

What can a formerly loyal TBC employee (quality assurance inspector) and honest person do if every avenue of redress is corrupted and manipulated?  Some might, in desperation, consider going to the media, particularly if the person was aware that there might be a big safety risk to the flying public and military users of the company’s aircraft. 

A person with a moral base, and a conscience that won’t just let him blow it off and look the other way, (as many advised him to do to avoid being targeted and destroyed by the very company he had loyally worked for), might try to turn some lights on in the swamp.  Think about it.  In the current atmosphere of corruption coming from the highest levels of our government, it could well be you, any of you who work in defense or other government contractors, or in government agencies.    In the opinion of this observer more investigations into the business practices of Boeing and the FAA/DOT and the legally enforced ending of harassment of Boeing and FAA whistleblowers must be done.    -GFS