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Haringey hits back at child protection whistle-blower
Haringey Council has launched a counter-offensive against a senior social worker who won an employment tribunal against it by default last week. Nevres Kemal, who still works for the council successfully sued Haringey for racial discrimination and being disadvantaged as a result of whistle-blowing, because it failed to respond to her claims. .
New measure encourages telling IRS of tax cheats
The Internal Revenue Service estimates that the difference between what Americans owe in federal taxes and what they actually pay every year is about $345 billion annually. To close this huge "tax gap," Congress and President Bush enacted a measure in December designed to give people more motivation to tattle on dishonest employers, employees, co-workers, acquaintances and former spouses. But the enhanced incentives -- higher cash rewards to those who blow the whistle on tax cheats -- will go only to those informants who provide specific, useful information. "Evidence and analysis is what we are looking for rather than hearsay and speculation," said Stephen Whitlock, director of the IRS' new Whistleblower Office. "People who come in with hearsay, speculation and a motive tend to be less reliable.
Man, yanked into snow blower, dies of injuries
HUNTER MOUNTAIN - A Greene County man was killed Monday when he was accidentally pulled into a snow blower, state police in Catskill said.
Walter Rion, 63, of Prattsville, a Hunter Mountain Ski Resort employee, was trying to close an overhead garage door at the resort when the accident happened.
Police said Rion's clothes were caught in the moving blades of a 6-foot-wide snow blower, pulling the man into the machine. .
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