David Weber, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission internal investigator allegedly fired for allegedly carrying an
alleged firearm while on alleged duty, sued the agency for wrongful
termination. Weber, who was chief
investigator in the SEC’s inspector general’s office, is asking for $40 million
in damages. His suit, filed yesterday in federal court in Washington, argues
that he was terminated as part of a campaign to “cover up” and “whitewash”
disclosures of wrongdoing he was investigating.
Weber was placed on paid leave by the SEC in May, shortly
after he raised allegations that ex-inspector general H. David Kotz may have
had personal relationships that tainted probes on the SEC’s handling of the
Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford Ponzi schemes. Weber was fired on Oct. 31.
The lawsuit called the gun allegations “baseless” and said
he kept a legally registered firearm in his car….allegedly speaking of course....
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