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More About John Vittone
Judge John M. Vittone was appointed chief judge of the United States Department of Labor’s
Office of Adminstrative Law Judges on April 28, 1996. He joined the Department of Labor as
deputy chief judge in 1987, and served as the acting chief judge before his appointment as chief
judge. Before joining the Department of Labor, Judge Vittone was a judge with the Department of
Transportation and Civil Aeronautics Board where he specialized in international route selection
proceedings and airline mergers. As an attorney, Judge Vittone was on the staff of the Antitrust
Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. He served in the United
States Army from 1968 to 1970 and was honorably discharged as captain. Judge Vittone
graduated from the University of Richmond in 1964 and the University of Kentucky Law School in
1967. The chief judge is responsible for the overall management of the Office of Administrative
Law Judges, judges of which conduct hearings on a wide variety of case types, including black
lung, longshore, immigration, and traditional labor cases (e.g., whistleblower, Davis-Bacon and
child labor). The Office of Administrative Law Judges is composed of approximately fifty-four
judges and 140 staff employees in Washington, D.C. and seven district offices. The chief judge is
responsible for the financial management of the office, assignment of all cases, timely disposition
of all cases, and supervision of the staff. The chief judge also hears and decides cases in all
program areas. Finally, he serves as liaison between the office and other agencies within the
Department of Labor, other federal agencies, and congressional offices.
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Labor
Just The Facts
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http://www.progressivegovernment.org/appointee_data4.php?title=Chief%20Administrative%
20Law%20Judge%20-%20LA
·
2007 NELA's Whistleblower Law Committee, along with some management-bar representatives,
met with Chief Judge John M. Vittone and Associate Chief Judge Thomas M. Burke of the U.S.
Labor Department's Office of Administrative Law Judges to discuss the operation of the OALJ in
whistleblower cases.
...
A. It has come to my attention that DOL Chief Administrative Law Judge John Michael Vittone
(accompanied by his wife, Karen), are going to Honolulu, Hawaii for an American Bar Association
(ABA) Convention, during the period August 1-10, 2006.
...
As one whose mother recently died of Alzheimer's, I am offended and disconcerted to learn of
such waste, fraud and abuse being practiced by USDOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone when
DOL refuses to enforce whistleblower laws.
...
Why are Chief Judge Vittone and his wife Karen staying overnight in Los Angeles, as his May 14,
2006 letter to the Washington Post revealed?
...
Is this in connection with efforts by Judge Vittone to obtain private sector jobs with the
transportation industry?
...
H. Does Chief Judge John Michael Vittone have a blanket travel authorization, to where he can
approve his own travel to Honolulu?
...
I. A full criminal, civil and administrative investigation of Judge Vittone's travel is also required in
light of Judge Vittone's abuse of government travel to pursue personal witch hunts (e.g., flying to
Nashville for a December 7, 1998 visit to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility to
persecute a lawyer who criticized DOL's non-enforcement of whistleblower laws).
J. If Judge Vittone has a blanket travel authorization, it must be revoked.
K. This abuser of human rights and the public fisc should no longer be allowed to fritter away
public funds.Please advise the Secretary of Labor to initiate a removal action before the Merit
Systems Protection Board.
L. Please send Inspector General criminal investigators to Honolulu to surveil and investigate
Judge Vittone and other DOL employees to determine what it is that they are doing.
...
"John Michael Vittone is abusing his authority as Chief Judge of the Department of Labor
...
YELLOW TAKES CONTROL OF CHIEF JUDGE JOHN VITTONE AND THE ARBIN 1996
YELLOW HAS THE DOL CHIEF JUDGE (VITTONE) AND THE ARB COMPLETELY DISMANTLE
THE 6th CIRCUIT'S DECISION ON REFUSALS TO DRIVE WHEN FATIGUED
...
Under "Command Influence" from Chief Judge John Vittone and the Secretary of Labor
...
ALJ MILLER COMPLETELY VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND RIGHTS OF DUE
PROCESS UNDER ORDERS FROM CHIEF JUDGE JOHN VITTONE AND MOVES TO DISMISS
THE CASE!
...
under orders from Chief Judge John Vittone and retaliates against Edward A. Slavin Esquire,
...
VITTONE BLATANTLY VIOLATES
...
Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 24, I hereby invoke the protection of DOL environmental whistleblower
laws to right wrongs by Department of Labor Chief Administrative Law Judge John M. Vittone and
the DOL OALJ Front Office, et al. For nearly four years, Judge Vittone has labored, at the
Department of Labor's expense, to violate my whistleblower and free speech rights; used illegal
orders to blacklist me; maliciously filed, intemperately pursued and weakly assisted as a supposed
"expert" witness in the harassing disciplinary actions he filed against me with the Tennessee
Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR).He has engaged in other blacklisting communications,
which requires an investigation.His campaign began with his use of words like "scatological" to
describe dissent, then began in earnest on December 7, 1998.
...
DOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone secretly flew to Nashville at federal expense, lobbying the
Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
...
Admittedly "emotional," DOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone testified before a Tennessee bar
panel in Knoxville on February 12, 2002 that he "had to look up" the word desuetude and that "no
other attorney" had ever accused DOL of desuetude of worker protection laws.
...
Vittone was then appointed in April of 1996 by Reich.
...
JOHN VITTONE'S PERMANENT APPOINTMENT AS CHIEF JUDGE REICH'S"SUDDEN"
RESIGNATION AFTER THE DOL COVER-UP WAS COMPLETE
More About John Vittone
Judge John M. Vittone was appointed chief judge of the United States Department of Labor’s
Office of Adminstrative Law Judges on April 28, 1996. He joined the Department of Labor as
deputy chief judge in 1987, and served as the acting chief judge before his appointment as chief
judge. Before joining the Department of Labor, Judge Vittone was a judge with the Department of
Transportation and Civil Aeronautics Board where he specialized in international route selection
proceedings and airline mergers. As an attorney, Judge Vittone was on the staff of the Antitrust
Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. He served in the United
States Army from 1968 to 1970 and was honorably discharged as captain. Judge Vittone
graduated from the University of Richmond in 1964 and the University of Kentucky Law School in
1967. The chief judge is responsible for the overall management of the Office of Administrative
Law Judges, judges of which conduct hearings on a wide variety of case types, including black
lung, longshore, immigration, and traditional labor cases (e.g., whistleblower, Davis-Bacon and
child labor). The Office of Administrative Law Judges is composed of approximately fifty-four
judges and 140 staff employees in Washington, D.C. and seven district offices. The chief judge is
responsible for the financial management of the office, assignment of all cases, timely disposition
of all cases, and supervision of the staff. The chief judge also hears and decides cases in all
program areas. Finally, he serves as liaison between the office and other agencies within the
Department of Labor, other federal agencies, and congressional offices.
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Labor
Just The Facts
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.progressivegovernment.org/appointee_data4.php?title=Chief%20Administrative%
20Law%20Judge%20-%20LA
·
2007 NELA's Whistleblower Law Committee, along with some management-bar representatives,
met with Chief Judge John M. Vittone and Associate Chief Judge Thomas M. Burke of the U.S.
Labor Department's Office of Administrative Law Judges to discuss the operation of the OALJ in
whistleblower cases.
...
A. It has come to my attention that DOL Chief Administrative Law Judge John Michael Vittone
(accompanied by his wife, Karen), are going to Honolulu, Hawaii for an American Bar Association
(ABA) Convention, during the period August 1-10, 2006.
...
As one whose mother recently died of Alzheimer's, I am offended and disconcerted to learn of
such waste, fraud and abuse being practiced by USDOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone when
DOL refuses to enforce whistleblower laws.
...
Why are Chief Judge Vittone and his wife Karen staying overnight in Los Angeles, as his May 14,
2006 letter to the Washington Post revealed?
...
Is this in connection with efforts by Judge Vittone to obtain private sector jobs with the
transportation industry?
...
H. Does Chief Judge John Michael Vittone have a blanket travel authorization, to where he can
approve his own travel to Honolulu?
...
I. A full criminal, civil and administrative investigation of Judge Vittone's travel is also required in
light of Judge Vittone's abuse of government travel to pursue personal witch hunts (e.g., flying to
Nashville for a December 7, 1998 visit to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility to
persecute a lawyer who criticized DOL's non-enforcement of whistleblower laws).
J. If Judge Vittone has a blanket travel authorization, it must be revoked.
K. This abuser of human rights and the public fisc should no longer be allowed to fritter away
public funds.Please advise the Secretary of Labor to initiate a removal action before the Merit
Systems Protection Board.
L. Please send Inspector General criminal investigators to Honolulu to surveil and investigate
Judge Vittone and other DOL employees to determine what it is that they are doing.
...
"John Michael Vittone is abusing his authority as Chief Judge of the Department of Labor
...
YELLOW TAKES CONTROL OF CHIEF JUDGE JOHN VITTONE AND THE ARBIN 1996
YELLOW HAS THE DOL CHIEF JUDGE (VITTONE) AND THE ARB COMPLETELY DISMANTLE
THE 6th CIRCUIT'S DECISION ON REFUSALS TO DRIVE WHEN FATIGUED
...
Under "Command Influence" from Chief Judge John Vittone and the Secretary of Labor
...
ALJ MILLER COMPLETELY VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND RIGHTS OF DUE
PROCESS UNDER ORDERS FROM CHIEF JUDGE JOHN VITTONE AND MOVES TO DISMISS
THE CASE!
...
under orders from Chief Judge John Vittone and retaliates against Edward A. Slavin Esquire,
...
VITTONE BLATANTLY VIOLATES
...
Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 24, I hereby invoke the protection of DOL environmental whistleblower
laws to right wrongs by Department of Labor Chief Administrative Law Judge John M. Vittone and
the DOL OALJ Front Office, et al. For nearly four years, Judge Vittone has labored, at the
Department of Labor's expense, to violate my whistleblower and free speech rights; used illegal
orders to blacklist me; maliciously filed, intemperately pursued and weakly assisted as a supposed
"expert" witness in the harassing disciplinary actions he filed against me with the Tennessee
Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR).He has engaged in other blacklisting communications,
which requires an investigation.His campaign began with his use of words like "scatological" to
describe dissent, then began in earnest on December 7, 1998.
...
DOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone secretly flew to Nashville at federal expense, lobbying the
Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
...
Admittedly "emotional," DOL Chief Judge John Michael Vittone testified before a Tennessee bar
panel in Knoxville on February 12, 2002 that he "had to look up" the word desuetude and that "no
other attorney" had ever accused DOL of desuetude of worker protection laws.
...
Vittone was then appointed in April of 1996 by Reich.
...
JOHN VITTONE'S PERMANENT APPOINTMENT AS CHIEF JUDGE REICH'S"SUDDEN"
RESIGNATION AFTER THE DOL COVER-UP WAS COMPLETE
| Defense Base Act Workmans Compensation The Department of Labor, the ALJ's, the Insurance Companies and their Lawyers Connections you should know about |
Suit against Blackwater over contractor deaths moves to arbitration
Thanks to some high-stakes legal maneuvering, Blackwater USA may yet manage to avoid a public
examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to worldwide attention and changed
the course of the Iraq war.
After appealing unsuccessfully all the way to the Supreme Court, Blackwater now appears to have
found another way to derail what promised to be a landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four
security contractors killed in a convoy ambush in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
This week, on orders of a federal judge, the dispute is scheduled to be taken up out of court by a
three-man panel of arbitrators.
By steering the case into arbitration, Blackwater has shifted a legal showdown over issues of
battlefield accountability and presidential authority into a non judicial arena where the proceedings
occur behind closed doors and the outcome is confidential.
One of the three arbitrators is William Webster, a Reagan-era director of the
FBI and CIA with personal and business ties to several Blackwater lawyers.
Thanks to some high-stakes legal maneuvering, Blackwater USA may yet manage to avoid a public
examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to worldwide attention and changed
the course of the Iraq war.
After appealing unsuccessfully all the way to the Supreme Court, Blackwater now appears to have
found another way to derail what promised to be a landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four
security contractors killed in a convoy ambush in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
This week, on orders of a federal judge, the dispute is scheduled to be taken up out of court by a
three-man panel of arbitrators.
By steering the case into arbitration, Blackwater has shifted a legal showdown over issues of
battlefield accountability and presidential authority into a non judicial arena where the proceedings
occur behind closed doors and the outcome is confidential.
One of the three arbitrators is William Webster, a Reagan-era director of the
FBI and CIA with personal and business ties to several Blackwater lawyers.
Roger A Levy
(Lawyer for AIG and CNA)
Original here
" I remember remarking to my legal assistant, Miranda Chiu, who is now with the
Department of Labor in Washington D.C., that "we're not in Kansas anymore".
"Since then, my practice in this area has taken me all over the country where I have worked
with many claims professionals and have met skilled attorneys who represent both
claimants and carriers
I have likewise met administrative law judges in the Office of Administrative Law
Judges and Office of Workers' Compensation Programs personnel from every office in
both of those Department of Labor branches.
My travels have even taken me out of the country where I have been introduced to claims
representatives in Dubai and a lawyer and claimants in South Korea. This is not untypical for
those of us who do this kind of work these days.
While there are many people in the Department of Labor who make the system work, special
mention should be made of one man who, until very recently, along with his staff, was
responsible for administering the vast majority of claims filed under this act. Richard V.
Robilotti, District Director in New York City, can best be described as the engine that drives
this machine."
Miranda Chiu, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Chief, Branch of Policy, Regulations and
Procedures, DOL/ESA/OWCP/DLHWC
Christopher Catrambone, CEO of Tangiers, speaks at DoL sponsored
conference on DBA medical issues
Tangiers represents themselves as working for the DoL
(Lawyer for AIG and CNA)
Original here
" I remember remarking to my legal assistant, Miranda Chiu, who is now with the
Department of Labor in Washington D.C., that "we're not in Kansas anymore".
"Since then, my practice in this area has taken me all over the country where I have worked
with many claims professionals and have met skilled attorneys who represent both
claimants and carriers
I have likewise met administrative law judges in the Office of Administrative Law
Judges and Office of Workers' Compensation Programs personnel from every office in
both of those Department of Labor branches.
My travels have even taken me out of the country where I have been introduced to claims
representatives in Dubai and a lawyer and claimants in South Korea. This is not untypical for
those of us who do this kind of work these days.
While there are many people in the Department of Labor who make the system work, special
mention should be made of one man who, until very recently, along with his staff, was
responsible for administering the vast majority of claims filed under this act. Richard V.
Robilotti, District Director in New York City, can best be described as the engine that drives
this machine."
Miranda Chiu, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Chief, Branch of Policy, Regulations and
Procedures, DOL/ESA/OWCP/DLHWC
Christopher Catrambone, CEO of Tangiers, speaks at DoL sponsored
conference on DBA medical issues
Tangiers represents themselves as working for the DoL
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