Roland Gibeault

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The Two Pennies's Post

A defense contractor was faking safety tests on weapons meant to protect American pilots. One engineer said no.
In 1988, Roland Gibeault was a precision engineer at Genisco Technology Corporation, a defense subcontractor based in California. His job was to certify that critical components met military standards before they reached the battlefield.
Then management told him to falsify the test results.
Genisco wasn't making minor parts. The company built pressure transducers for the AGM-88 HARM missile — the high-speed weapon that hunts and destroys enemy radar systems, clearing the sky so American pilots can fly into hostile airspace without being shot down. That missile had just been used in combat during the April 1986 U.S. raid on Libya.
Genisco also built components for Mark 48 naval torpedoes, and pressure transducers for the Space Shuttle. These were parts that could not fail. If they failed, pilots died. Sailors died. Astronauts were put at risk.
When Gibeault refused to sign off on falsified certifications, he didn't walk out and find another job. He went to the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service — the federal unit dedicated to hunting fraud against the U.S. military. Remember that name. The DCIS would become a key player in what followed.
Gibeault then did something that would have broken most people. He went back to work.
For months, he showed up every day as if nothing had changed. Living a double life. Cooperating with investigators. Documenting the fraud piece by piece from the inside. One wrong word, one moment of suspicion, and everything collapsed. He kept his nerve.
Investigators built their case. The evidence was damning: Genisco had knowingly submitted false certifications on HARM missile transducers, torpedo simulators, and a mobile underwater target device. Parts that were supposed to protect human lives had never properly passed the tests designed to ensure they would.
Gibeault had tried to stop it from the inside. Management had ignored him. So he chose a different path.
In November 1988, Genisco Technology Corporation pled guilty to federal charges of falsifying test data on critical military components. The company was fined $725,000.
Then came January 1989. Three supervisors from Genisco's transducer division were sentenced to federal prison terms. Real time, behind real bars.
The fraud had been stopped. The men responsible had been held accountable.
But Gibeault paid for it.
After the grand jury indictment, Genisco fired him. The one man who had risked everything to do the right thing was out of a job, his career upended, his personal life thrown into chaos. He received $131,250 as his legal share of the government's $725,000 recovery. That's what the law entitled him to. It didn't give back what he lost.
The weapon Gibeault used wasn't new. It was a law Abraham Lincoln signed on March 2, 1863, at the height of the Civil War — the False Claims Act, sometimes called Lincoln's Law.
During the Civil War, corrupt contractors had been robbing the Union Army blind. They sold diseased horses as healthy ones. They sold gunpowder cut with sawdust. Soldiers were dying because of fraud carried out in the name of profit. Lincoln's response was a law that gave ordinary private citizens the power to sue fraudsters on behalf of the government — and keep a share of whatever was recovered.
For over a century, the law mostly sat unused. Congress revived and strengthened it with major amendments in 1986, just two years before Gibeault filed his case. He was among the very first to wield the modernized weapon.
A Cold War engineer. A Civil War law. One of the earliest test cases of the revived False Claims Act — and it worked.
Gibeault still wasn't finished. He and a fellow engineer named Inge Maudal went after Genisco's parent company, Texas Instruments, in a second qui tam lawsuit — refusing to let the bigger players walk away clean. That case wound through federal courts for years.
The False Claims Act that Gibeault helped prove still had teeth has never stopped working. Since the 1986 amendments, the U.S. government has recovered over $75 billion through whistleblower-initiated lawsuits under the Act. Thousands of individuals have followed the trail Gibeault helped blaze — in healthcare, defense, finance, and beyond. Right now, someone is using his blueprint to expose the next contractor cutting corners on equipment that taxpayers fund and soldiers depend on.
There is no major film about Roland Gibeault. Most people have never heard his name.
After everything, he spent his time counseling other whistleblowers — warning them about the cost, helping them survive what he had survived. He knew the truth better than anyone: doing the right thing can take everything from you.
He did it anyway.
One engineer. One refusal. A Civil War law. Three executives in prison.
He lost his job. He helped save lives he would never meet.
The law he proved still works — and it's still working today.
Tag someone who still believes one person can't take on the whole machine and win.
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60 Minutes Mike Wallace Exposes the 1976 Swine Flu Pandemic Vaccine Injuries

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Poisoned by my own country.
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2 Killed in Crash of Navy Helicopter

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The Two Pennies's Post

A defense contractor was faking safety tests on weapons meant to protect American pilots. One engineer said no.
In 1988, Roland Gibeault was a precision engineer at Genisco Technology Corporation, a defense subcontractor based in California. His job was to certify that critical components met military standards before they reached the battlefield.
Then management told him to falsify the test results.
Genisco wasn't making minor parts. The company built pressure transducers for the AGM-88 HARM missile — the high-speed weapon that hunts and destroys enemy radar systems, clearing the sky so American pilots can fly into hostile airspace without being shot down. That missile had just been used in combat during the April 1986 U.S. raid on Libya.
Genisco also built components for Mark 48 naval torpedoes, and pressure transducers for the Space Shuttle. These were parts that could not fail. If they failed, pilots died. Sailors died. Astronauts were put at risk.
When Gibeault refused to sign off on falsified certifications, he didn't walk out and find another job. He went to the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service — the federal unit dedicated to hunting fraud against the U.S. military. Remember that name. The DCIS would become a key player in what followed.
Gibeault then did something that would have broken most people. He went back to work.
For months, he showed up every day as if nothing had changed. Living a double life. Cooperating with investigators. Documenting the fraud piece by piece from the inside. One wrong word, one moment of suspicion, and everything collapsed. He kept his nerve.
Investigators built their case. The evidence was damning: Genisco had knowingly submitted false certifications on HARM missile transducers, torpedo simulators, and a mobile underwater target device. Parts that were supposed to protect human lives had never properly passed the tests designed to ensure they would.
Gibeault had tried to stop it from the inside. Management had ignored him. So he chose a different path.
In November 1988, Genisco Technology Corporation pled guilty to federal charges of falsifying test data on critical military components. The company was fined $725,000.
Then came January 1989. Three supervisors from Genisco's transducer division were sentenced to federal prison terms. Real time, behind real bars.
The fraud had been stopped. The men responsible had been held accountable.
But Gibeault paid for it.
After the grand jury indictment, Genisco fired him. The one man who had risked everything to do the right thing was out of a job, his career upended, his personal life thrown into chaos. He received $131,250 as his legal share of the government's $725,000 recovery. That's what the law entitled him to. It didn't give back what he lost.
The weapon Gibeault used wasn't new. It was a law Abraham Lincoln signed on March 2, 1863, at the height of the Civil War — the False Claims Act, sometimes called Lincoln's Law.
During the Civil War, corrupt contractors had been robbing the Union Army blind. They sold diseased horses as healthy ones. They sold gunpowder cut with sawdust. Soldiers were dying because of fraud carried out in the name of profit. Lincoln's response was a law that gave ordinary private citizens the power to sue fraudsters on behalf of the government — and keep a share of whatever was recovered.
For over a century, the law mostly sat unused. Congress revived and strengthened it with major amendments in 1986, just two years before Gibeault filed his case. He was among the very first to wield the modernized weapon.
A Cold War engineer. A Civil War law. One of the earliest test cases of the revived False Claims Act — and it worked.
Gibeault still wasn't finished. He and a fellow engineer named Inge Maudal went after Genisco's parent company, Texas Instruments, in a second qui tam lawsuit — refusing to let the bigger players walk away clean. That case wound through federal courts for years.
The False Claims Act that Gibeault helped prove still had teeth has never stopped working. Since the 1986 amendments, the U.S. government has recovered over $75 billion through whistleblower-initiated lawsuits under the Act. Thousands of individuals have followed the trail Gibeault helped blaze — in healthcare, defense, finance, and beyond. Right now, someone is using his blueprint to expose the next contractor cutting corners on equipment that taxpayers fund and soldiers depend on.
There is no major film about Roland Gibeault. Most people have never heard his name.
After everything, he spent his time counseling other whistleblowers — warning them about the cost, helping them survive what he had survived. He knew the truth better than anyone: doing the right thing can take everything from you.
He did it anyway.
One engineer. One refusal. A Civil War law. Three executives in prison.
He lost his job. He helped save lives he would never meet.
The law he proved still works — and it's still working today.
Tag someone who still believes one person can't take on the whole machine and win.
#thetwopennies #history #historyfacts #factsyoudidntknow

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Military Contractors Challenging Whistle-Blower Law
By KIM MURPHY, LA Times

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2-Segments: 60 Minutes 'In HARMs Way' & ABC 20/20 Special Report "Faulty ALCM Cruise Missiles"
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So many years have passed by since this response to the D.O.J. regarding the Douglas Letter written pro se by Inge Maudal and myself. This is a rough draft of the letter to Lucy Eldridge. Even after all these years this letter rings true in so many different ways. Inge Maudal was an engineer par excellence on loan from Ford Aerospace to China Lake as a consultant on the H.A.R.M missile due to the poor test performances from telemetry package reading from test firings by the Navy.

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Response to Admiral Chang regarding HARM Missile failures Nov. 1988, 'In HARMs Way' 'Errant HARM Missiles'

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This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche is a critique of the state’s authority and power, asserting that its proclamations are often deceptive and its possessions are often seized unjustly. The “lie” Nietzsche refers to can be understood as the state’s manipulation or distortion of truth to maintain control over its citizens. The “stolen” part implies the state’s acquisition of resources, wealth, or power, often at the expense of its citizens.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]

~Harry Truman

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White-Collar Crimes Become a Priority for County FBI Agents : Law enforcement: Of 10 satellite offices in seven counties, the one in Ventura is the most popular among operatives.

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Saying farewell to the extraordinary Mike Wallace
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Poisoned by my own country.
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*Remembering Peter Stockton*

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My first two initial contacts with Peter and his staff of investigators started the first week of March & May 1986. The March contact was regarding the Space Shuttle Disaster
January 28, 1986 and the second contact after >

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Goodearl and Aldred Versus Hughes Aircraft:
A Whistle-Blowing Case Study.
Kevin W. Bowyer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida.
HARM Missile Failures throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
Adding insult to injury...

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