Court rules against ex-staffer caught in 'shameful turf war'

摘要

Former EPA special agent Elisabeth Heller was on the "front line of a shameful turf war" at the agency, a federal judge said this week as he rejected her retaliation complaint brought under the Civil Rights Act. Heller, who was an investigator in EPA's Office of Inspector General, made headlines several years ago after she told House lawmakers she had been "assaulted" and "intimidated" by another employee in EPA's Office of Homeland Security during the course of an investigation IGreenwire. May 5, 2014).