BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:"Ethical Dilemmas of Government Whistleblowers." Jon Oberg and Louis Clark will present as part of the "American Whistleblower Tour: Mode ls of Courageous Citizenship." The Government Accountability Project (GAP) uses conflict and\ncollaboration to fulfill its mission as the nation’s l eading whistleblower\nprotection organization. GAP’s President Louis Clark and U.S. Dept. of\nEducation whistleblower Jon Oberg will discuss how con flict and collaboration\nwere used effectively to disclose and deal with f raud and abuse. Jon initially\nattempted to collaborate with the Departmen t on a solution to the problem of\nillegal payments being made to student loan lenders from 2002 to 2004. Only after he was told not to collaborate with anyone or even work on the\nproblem did he take action in conflict wi th the Department. Working through\nthe Inspector General\, the Government Accountability Office\, and Senate\ncommittees\, he was able to spotlight the illegal payments and have them\nhalted. After his retirement from the Department\, he filed suit in 2007 on\nbehalf of the U.S. to get back pay ments returned. Five settlements with\nlenders came about in 2010\, anothe r settlement was achieved in 2012\, and two\ncases are still pending. Appr oximately $75 million of illegal claims have\nbeen returned by lenders to date. In 2010\, Congress killed the bank-based\nstudent loan program in pa rt because of the fraud he exposed. Sponsored by PARCC - Program f or the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration. DTEND:20140327T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T110544Z DTSTART:20140327T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies presents: Jon Oberg and Louis Cla rk UID:RFCALITEM639140799448659512 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Ethical Dilemmas of Government W histleblowers." Jon Oberg and Louis Clark will present as part of the "American Whistleblower Tour: Models of Co urageous Citizenship." The Government Accountability Project (GAP) use s conflict and\ncollaboration to fulfill its mission as the nation’s leadi ng whistleblower\nprotection organization. GAP’s President Louis Clark and U.S. Dept. of\nEducation whistleblower Jon Oberg will discuss how conflic t and collaboration\nwere used effectively to disclose and deal with fraud and abuse. Jon initially\nattempted to collaborate with the Department on a solution to the problem of\nillegal payments being made to student loan lenders from 2002 to 2004. Only after he was told not to collaborate with anyone or even work on the\nproblem did he take action in conflict with t he Department. Working through\nthe Inspector General\, the Government Acc ountability Office\, and Senate\ncommittees\, he was able to spotlight the illegal payments and have them\nhalted. After his retirement from the Dep artment\, he filed suit in 2007 on\nbehalf of the U.S. to get back payment s returned. Five settlements with\nlenders came about in 2010\, another se ttlement was achieved in 2012\, and two\ncases are still pending. Approxim ately $75 million of illegal claims have\nbeen returned by lenders to date . In 2010\, Congress killed the bank-based\nstudent loan program in part b ecause of the fraud he exposed. Sponsored by PARCC - Program for t he Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration.

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