Fact check: Were whistleblower rules changed before Ukraine complaint?

David Colapinto

Published On: September 30th, 2019

This article features commentary from Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto’s founding partner, David K. Colapinto.

David Colapinto, an attorney with Kohn, Kohn, and Colapinto who represents whistleblowers, and who is a co-founder of the National Whistleblower Center, said whistleblowers need only have a “reasonable belief” that wrongdoing occurred. The claim that the Ukraine whistleblower hadn’t followed procedure or somehow shouldn’t be protected as a whistleblower was “ridiculous,” he said.

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