HuffPo’s Marcus Baram reports: A former Iraq-based General Electric executive claims he was fired after raising concerns that the company was violating federal anti-bribery laws.
Khaled Asadi says he objected to GE's hiring of a woman close to a senior Iraqi official in the summer of 2010 in order to "curry favor" with the Iraqi electricity ministry while bidding on $250 million contract. The move "could be damaging to GE's reputation and potentially violate the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act," according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed on Friday in federal court in Houston.
Soon after raising the issue with his supervisor and the GE ombudsperson, Asadi, who now lives in Houston and retains citizenship in both Iraq and the U.S., claims he was pressured to step down from a position he has held since 2006 and given an "extremely negative and troubling performance review," according to the lawsuit. He was eventually fired on June 24, 2011. Though Asadi signed an employment agreement requiring him to take any dispute to binding arbitration, he sued GE in court by citing the anti-whistleblower retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Act. A spokesman for GE vigorously denied the accusation…
Read all about it at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/general-electric-whistleblower_n_1262207.html?ref=business
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