Posted on 06/07/2005 3:28:53 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Do any of you research minded folks know anything about this? Seems those tolerant liberals at the University of California got a little restless over the weekend...
You may find this interesting.
This is outrageous! I hope this poor man recovers and I hope the people who beat him are found and jailed--forever!
Now they need to go in there and do a thorough investigation on every swinging Richard in that program.
Earlier threads have posited a Chinese connection.
Wen Ho Lee ring a bell?
.......wow,....this sounds like it came from Felt's Washington Post....staff?
Now don't be so hard on Director Kuckuck. It's what a lib SAYS, not what he does, that matters.
No, but Bill Richardson does even though he might not be Chinese.
I doubt it. This appears more to be a garden-variety financial mismanagement situation. The lady who 'accidentally' charged a Mustang on a lab credit card comes to mind. I saw a thread earlier this evening on that situation.
Mike
Los Alamos Lab Whistleblower Beaten
Jun 6, 10:50 PM (ET)
By DEBORAH BAKER
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A Los Alamos lab whistleblower scheduled to testify before Congress about alleged financial irregularities was badly beaten outside a bar - an attack his wife and lawyer believe was designed to silence him.
Police and the FBI said that they were investigating the circumstances of the incident which, according to his wife, left Tommy Hook hospitalized Monday with a broken jaw and other injuries.
Police Deputy Chief Eric Johnson said officers found Hook after responding to a reported assault at the Cheeks Night Club about 2 a.m. Sunday. He provided few other details.
"We are working jointly with the FBI, trying to determine what may have happened and what the assault may have stemmed from," Johnson said. FBI spokesman Bill Elwell described the agency's inquiry as preliminary.
Hook's wife, Susan, alleged the assailants told her husband during the attack: "If you know what's good for you, you'll keep your mouth shut."
Tommy Hook and another whistleblower sued the University of California in March, alleging that after they uncovered management failures, university and lab managers tried to make their jobs miserable so they would quit.
Hook, a former internal auditor who now works at another job at the lab, had been scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee later this month.
According to Susan Hook, her husband received a call late Saturday from someone wanting to meet with him at a bar. She said her husband told her the man never showed up, but that as he was leaving the parking lot, a group of men pulled him from his car and beat him.
"They left him in the parking lot for dead," said Tommy Hook's lawyer, Robert Rothstein.
Rothstein said the assailants didn't take Hook's wallet, other personal belongings or car. Without any other motive, it appears the beating was related to his whistleblowing, Rothstein contended.
Susan Hook said her husband did not frequent bars.
Los Alamos lab spokesman Kevin Roark called the beating a "senseless and brutal act and should not be tolerated."
The lab and UC also issued a joint statement decrying the violence. "Director (Robert) Kuckuck, the University of California and the laboratory believe that any form of physical violence toward an individual is unacceptable," the statement read.
Apparently, UC is in danger of losing the contract for oversight of Los Alamos because of financial mismanagement there, which guys like Hook are exposing. The Chicom penetration there is jeopardized by the change.
I wonder if the Arkancide gang was involved.
I think the entire Clinton cabinet is honorary Chinese. ;^)
That's certainly a possibility. I was thinking of the more direct link.
Hmmmmm.schwarzenegger has been on the unions lately...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325949/posts
Kuckuck is new to Los Alamos...was appointed as interim director in May. He was formerly at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.
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