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Oil Spill Whistleblower Settles,Vows to "Fund a Nationwide Attack" On His Former Employer
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/04/john-bolenbaugh-enbridge-michigan-spill-settles
John Bolenbaugh paced the courtroom in Battle Creek, Michigan, Tuesday morning waiting for his attorney to arrive. Tom Warnicke was set to file a motion to dismiss his client's lawsuit against former employer SET Environmental—part of a settlement agreement Bolenbaugh's legal team reached with opposing counsel Douglas Van Essen on Sunday. But for now, it was just Bolenbaugh and SET president David de Vries in the courtroom, together in awkward silence.
"You know you still got supervisors telling workers to cover up oil," Bolenbaugh said. "There's another whistleblower that came forward last week." This second whistleblower, a current SET employee, was to have been Bolenbaugh's surprise witness—and he couldn't resist telling de Vries.
But according to Bolenbaugh, SET's president—who had sat attentively through two days of tense trial testimony—didn't want to talk. "Let's not do this right now," he pleaded.
"Okay," Bolenbaugh persisted. "I just thought you should know."