Testimony of Truth:  “Phoenix Affair – Cry for Justice”

“Disabled Religious Man Forced to Pay $30,000 for Reporting Wrongdoing”

“Disabled Religious Whistleblower Forced to Pay”

This testimony is to inform those whom wish to know of a religious battle that has exposed serious rights violations and religious persecutions of a Man of Faith that cried out for “Justice” within the US Federal Court System, (Whatley vs. South Carolina DPS/DMV, 4^th Circuit, Case Number #:  3:05-cv-00042-JFA). 

The events began in the year, 2000, when Whatley, a Christian man, discovered multiple wrong doings of his employer, SCDPS/DMV, mainly Project Phoenix, which was a $40+ million project to replace the old DMV computer system with modern equipment. 

Whatley first noticed that the contract details did not match the actual delivered computers, the hardware and software where not compatible to the request of the contract.  The manager of the project enjoyed regular salary increases and special contract approvals by his wife; who managed the project budget.  There were “backdoor” meetings with contractors to “by-pass” normal and legal bidding processes. 

Whatley reported these wrongdoings to his department heads, which conducted internal investigations and told Whatley that there was no “wrongdoing”, that everything was normal state government procedure.  Because of Whatley’s reporting these wrongdoings, the supervisors began subjecting him to a severe hostile working environment.  In 2002, his supervisors attempted to discredit him in order to terminate his employment.  Whatley reported the wrongdoing by his supervisor who ordered him to illegally communicate to state representatives over purchases of a new DMV Blythewood building.   When Whatley refused this order and reported the supervisory order to the agency director, the agency director conducted an internal investigation.

This investigation triggered Whatley’s supervisors to heat up pressure on Whatley in means of insulting him of his “out spoken” Christian faith, such as calling him a “religious freak” in front of other co-workers, breaking into his desk and stealing his Bible, sabotaging his work, causing trouble by blaming Whatley for computer crashes not relative to his assigned duties.  His supervisors finally forced Whatley to relocate out of the computer department, in which he was the most senior and expert, to a “storage closet” with no phone, computer and/or other business tools, across town located in the DMV’s mailroom.

Because of the continued mistreatment against Whatley, he suffered severe depression, anxiety, migraines, high blood pressure, and insomnia to the point that his doctors diagnosed him with “Post Traumatic Syndrome” and demanded him to take medical leave.  Whatley applied for Workers Compensation because he had sustained injuries caused by his supervisors’ mistreatment and hostile working environment.  Whatley informed his supervisors of his injury and applied for Workers Compensation.  His supervisors conducted meetings to discuss methods to avoid Whatley’s protected rights in order to “fire/terminate” Whatley, where he would not receive any medical health benefits.

The horrors against Whatley did not stop there.  His supervisors, along with the department attorney, attacked Whatley from every angle they could formulate.  Such as accusing Whatley of fraud, deception, lying, and that, he was a “worthless” man.

Whatley discovered that attorneys that he tried to hire were suspected to be just as crooked as his supervisors and who appeared to be close friends to the state attorney.  Any attorney he hired was shown to be a liar and tried to force Whatley to sign agreements in which they wanted him to say that nothing was done wrong by his supervisors and that Whatley had lied about the entire affair.  Whatley refused to sign such agreements and put his hopes in the federal court system, thinking that justice would prevail.  Little did he know that the 4^th District appears to be just as corrupted as the state government?  The federal judge has strong political foundations within the state as well as the attorney representing the state.

The interesting factor is that Whatley had federal criminal investigators, trained in federal employee protected rights, waste, fraud and abuse wrong doing investigations, as well as, workers compensation violations, advising him of the federal and state laws which his supervisors had violated.  The federal judge, completely ignored these law violations, did not care of the evidence and facts, but instead ruled against Whatley and has made a judgment for Whatley to pay $30,000 to the state attorney.  Apparently, this is the price for speaking out against the abuse against the South Carolina Taxpayer!!

The state attorney was a former employee of the state and was the legal advisor for the contracts of Project Phoenix.  The shocking details of this attorney’s enrolment in the contracts are very suspicious as to his position to represent the state and receive such large financial charges for his services.  This point addressed within the court record that this violated federal rules and laws.  Again, the judge refused and ignored such law violations.

Another interesting factor of this case is that Whatley continued to ask the court to answer two important questions:

(1)    Do the laws protect an employee from retaliation of reporting wrongdoing? 

(2)    Do the laws protect an injured employee against termination from employment after applying for workers compensation?  

The judge clearly showed by his ruling against Whatley, that an employer can violate laws that are supposedly to protect employees from such violations and harassment and “We are not protected!”

The judge claims that the Plaintiff, Whatley, violated discovery by not supplying IRS documents and not attending another deposition.  This is incorrect Whatley states:  “I gave those IRS documents 4 times and was forced to order certified copies a 5^th time”, Whatley continues:  “The Judge’s Order clearly states that I was not to go to another deposition until after receiving the 5^th IRS documents…  I was setup by the corruption from the beginning”.  Whatley also says:  “I have been the only one accused of bad-faith, yet the state refused to hand over contract documents and was never deposed, I reported this to the judge and he completely ignored me and all my evidence”.

This report is to bring attention to the public and Christian communities, that they need to be aware of the corruption that has decayed the federal system.  That we, as the people, need to take a stand, call on everyone to begin making a “Public Grand Jury” to over ride these illegal judgments, impeach these wicked judges, lawyers and politics.  To develop a public “watch-dog” that fights corruption and enforces our laws against any and all who violate our laws.  May this case be the last, may this case be the trigger to call on such a “Grand Jury” of the public to over rule the judge’s outrageous judgment.  Time is short; we must make our stand now, and bring the Country back to the purpose that once we stood, for God, Our King! 

We need to stop allowing the wolves, the wicked that rule over us, to shred our Country’s inner Christian core.  God has blessed us with the rights to take our heritage, now we must fight to take it back. 

Fight not like the ways of the world with physical weapons, but with our voice, our prayers, our community, and our strength, form together and take our Country back!  It is “WE THE PEOPLE” that formulates this Great Nation.

All of this testimony is recorded in the public record of the Court Case within the 4^th Circuit of the Federal Courts, Whatley vs. South Carolina DPS/DMV.