Thugs beat up Los Alamos whistle blower
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 The Register has a story about how Tommy Hook, a Los Alamos Laboratory employee, was beaten up on Saturday night, apparently in an attempt to keep him quiet about alleged financial irregularities he uncovered at the facility.
Nothing was take from his car, and his wallet was not stolen. His lawyer Robert Rothstein of New Mexico law firm Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Schoenburg & Bienvenu, argues that with no other obvious motive, it looks like the attack is related to his whistle-blowing.“It is clear to us that this was a message,” Susan Hook told AP.
Hook also has a lawsuit pending against the laboratory, in which he accuses managers of the facility of making his life, and that of another whistle-blower, Chuck Monato, so unpleasant that they would quit their jobs.
