Former Employer Sues Defense Firm: An engineer...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Employer Sues Defense Firm: An engineer who quit his job at a Garden Grove defense contractor filed suit against the firm Tuesday, alleging that he was driven out because he blew the whistle on a scheme to defraud the government. John A. Trepl II contends that officials of Swedlow Inc. began to pressure him last year after he refused to cooperate in the firm’s alleged scheme to cover up flaws in windshields it manufactured for the B-1B bomber. Trepl also said he alerted the FBI to the case. Swedlow and a vice president, Norman Gene Nixon, 53, have been indicted on four counts of making false statements to the government.
