ML20248J347

Declaration of B Brink.* Discusses Settlement Awarded to Whistleblower Witnesses for Case

ML20248J347
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	10/15/1989
From:	Brink B WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES (WE THE PEOPLE
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ML20248J350	List: ML20248J347 ML20248J356 ML20248J360 ML20248J380
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CPA, OL, NUDOCS 8910180129
Download: ML20248J347 (2)

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Declaration of Betty Brink "On or about October 1, 1989, I was contacted by Dobie Hatley, a former Brown & Root employee at CPSES, who subsequently became a whistleblower witness for CASE in 1984. During the conversation, Mrs. Hatley told me that she was one of the whistleblower witnesses who received a portion of the $5.5 million. She said that she received about $450,000 and she understood that only seven of the whistleblowers, who had been or were scheduled to be witnesses for CASE, received settlements.

Each of those seven had cases against TU or its contractors pending before the Department of Labor and were all represented by either Billie Garde, Anthony Roisman or Marshall Gilmore, Mrs.

Hatley said. She said the three attorneys together received $1.5 million of the S5.5 million settlement money.

"On or aboot July 7, 1988, 1 spoke by telephone to Marshall Gilmore, attorney for CASE, board member of CASE, and attorney for CASE witness, Charles Atchison, who said that the two settlements, the one with CASE and the one with the whistleblower witnesses, were tied together and that both were tied to CASE's agreement to withdraw from the licensing hearings as an intervenor. At that time Mr. Gilmore did not tell me the amounts of money involved or the number of the whistleblowers who would benefit, but he did say that the concern for compensation for the whistleblowers was a major factor in CASE's agreement to settle.

If they did not withdraw, Mr. Gilmore said, the whistleblowers would receive no monies.

"That same week I spoke to Billie Garde, attorney for CASE 8910180129 891015 i PDR ADOCK 05000445 O PDR

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.and'some'of the CASE witnesses, who told me the same thing, that is, that the'two. settlements were tied to the withdrawal of' CASE as'an intervenor and the' closing of the proceedings."

l 1 I declare 'under penalty of perjury that the foregoing' is 73 true and correct.

1 Executed on October 15, 1989.

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Betty Brink ii

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