Glenn Walp : In reflecting on the settlement, Mr. Walp added, "Hopefully, this settlement will initiate the dawn of a new approach wherein all national lab contractors conscientiously strive to be wise stewards of tax dollars, and aggressively and appropriately address the issues of corruption and crime, that, regrettably, appears to permeate these environments. May this settlement send a searing message to all national lab leaders, that they need to concentrate their efforts on the security of all Americans and not personal or corporate gain. Consequently, they need to listen to their people when they bring deficiencies to their attention, and then take appropriate professional action to correct these shortcomings."
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There is no doubt that some crimes have taken place in this new scandal. Indeed, whistleblowers have charged that the troubled laboratory has experienced a wave of "major criminal activity" over the past three years and that lab managers have concealed the problem. Internal lab documents verify many of these allegations and show that the lab has "lost" nearly $2.7 million of government property since 1999. Other documents portray a pattern of concealment and deception dating back at least a decade. The lab had hired two seasoned criminal investigators, Glenn A. Walp and Steven L. Doran, to probe on-going thievery at Los Alamos. About Glenn Walp FBI Stonewalled In July, Walp hired Steven L. Doran, who also had an extensive police background particularly in white-collar crime, to assist him. After the whistleblowers brought the FBI in, Doran became the lab's main point of contact for a joint lab-FBI investigation. But the FBI quickly ran into obstacles as managers grew increasingly concerned that the lab's reputation and image would be badly tarnished if the media learned of the on-going scandal. Walp says he was told by Busboom that the lab "is famous for sacrificing their children to protect their image" and, in mid-July, Walp and Doran's contact with the FBI was halted. They were told that, henceforth, any contact with the bureau would be managed though the lab's chief counsel, Frank Dickson, who then steered FBI agents to other, less knowledgeable investigators. Glenn Walp Website Mr. Walp authored a memo leaked to the Albuquerque Journal and the Project On Government Oversight that drew attention to 260 missing computers, radio devices, and other equipment at Los Alamos. The Department of Energy Inspector General recently concluded as a result of the missing computers identified in the memo that Los Alamos could not "provide adequate assurance that classified, sensitive, or proprietary information is appropriately protected." (see POGO Alert -- Inspector General Report Damaging to Los Alamos Lab and Department Of Energy). Glenn Walp Website This wildfire began with a small spark. Lab employees were
accused of using lab money to buy personal goods: gas grills, picnic tables -- even a $30,000 Ford Mustang. (Los Alamos lawyers now assert that the car was ordered by mistake. The worker who purchased it meant to buy engineering equipment instead, they claim.) Glenn Walp Bio The lab and its University of California manager issued a press release claiming that the dollar amounts listed in the internal memos released to the public overstate the value of the property missing, lost, or stolen. The lab prefers to total only the "depreciated value" of the missing property not the original acquisition costs to the taxpayer. Instead of losing over a million dollars worth of goods in 2001, for example, the labs say the depreciated value is only about $160,000. Further, the lab director, John C. Browne, complained that many of the losses were due to mix-ups in the lab's accounting system.