Legal Opinion
Jorge Aviles v. Merit Systems Protection Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2015No. 14-60645PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge:
Former IRS agent Jorge Aviles asserts that he was fired in retaliation for protected whistleblowing. Aviles alleges that he uncovered that ExxonMobil Corporation (“Exxon”) had perpetrated a $500 million tax fraud and that IRS officials covered it up. Aviles claims he disclosed this information to his supervisors and that he was ultimately fired in retaliation for this protected disclosure in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act. An administrative law judge (ALJ) dismissed Aviles’s appeal. The ALJ found that — aside from Aviles’s “vague and conclusory”…
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