Billie Garde and misconduct
14 years since Billie P Garde was first licensed to practice law in DC.
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Dist. of Columbia Active 1997 09/13/2009
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This lawyer has been cited for professional misconduct by a state disciplinary authority.

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Dist. of Columbia Informal Admonition 2003 09/13/2009

BPs ombudsmans office neglected their concerns
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Additionally, employees who raised issues about safety and retaliation have singled out BP's Deputy Ombudsman, Billie Garde, accusing her of breaching their confidentiality by sharing sensitive documents and disclosing other closely-guarded information with executives at BP and its contractor, Acuren, that identified the employees who leveled the charges. Acuren is a firm that specializes in monitoring gas lines and pipelines for corrosion.

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Was Billie Garde bought off in this instance?
EXCERPT:A Coordinated Plan
Recent reports from Alaska show little improvement in the condition of TAPS or the culture of its operators. In June, an ASIS electrical inspector at the Valdez Terminal was subjected to verbal and physical harassment. Also in June, a short in some insulation tape on equipment at the terminal caused a fire that was later contained. These are just a few of the incidents detailed by Billie Garde, a Houston attorney representing many of the inspectors, in a 28-page letter to Congress in June. According to Garde, Alyeska is dismantling the last effective remnants of its inspection program. Alyeska is seeking to cut costs through new "quality generalist"positions that will give inspectors responsibility for a wider range of equipment, much of it potentially beyond their expertise.

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UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,
v.
Billie Pirner GARDE.

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848 F.2d 1307 (citation)
270 U.S.App.D.C. 275, 3 Indiv.Empl.Rts.Cas. 1109
UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,
v.
Billie Pirner GARDE.
No. 88-5022.
United States Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia Circuit.
June 17, 1988.
Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates, R. Craig Lawrence, and Mark E. Nagle, Asst. U.S. Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on appellant's motion to dismiss.

Marya C. Young, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Patti A. Goldman, Alan B. Morrison, David C. Viadeck, Washington, D.C., for Government Accountability Project.

Before SILBERMAN, D.H. GINSBURG and SENTELLE, Circuit Judges.

ON MOTION TO DISMISS

PER CURIAM.

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In the course of representing its clients, Government Accountability Project ("GAP")1 received information about safety problems at the South Texas Nuclear Plant ("South Texas"). GAP offered to provide this information to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC" or "agency") on the condition that informant identities and information that could lead to the informants' identification, be kept confidential. GAP also requested that the information be provided to a special team of the NRC office other than the NRC Region IV, which had a reputation for disclosing confidential identities to the utility accused of having safety problems. Rejecting this offer, the NRC issued to GAP attorney, Billie Garde, a subpoena seeking all information about the safety problems at South Texas, including the identities of the whistleblowers. Ms. Garde, invoking the attorney-client privilege, refused to honor the subpoena.
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The NRC, through the United States, brought an action against Garde in the district court, contending that it needed to obtain the identities of the whistleblowers.2 GAP intervened, opposing the enforcement of the subpoena on different grounds. GAP argued that disclosure of the identities of the whistleblowers would chill GAP's and the whistleblowers' "First Amendment associational rights" in their promotion of nuclear safety. Both GAP and Garde argued that enforcement of the subpoena would force GAP's attorneys to breach the attorney-client privilege, attorney work product privilege, and press privilege.

The following pdf file couldn't be copied but looks like it has lots of good information.

Alaska forum pdf
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Crude Behavior
Big Oil to Alaska Pipeline Inspectors: Don't Squak or Else.

What safety inspector Richard Acord witnessed by in September 1991 at Milepost 113.6 would have been a comedy of errors if the consequences were not so grave. Milepost 113.6 is one of 25 animal corssings where the Trans-Alaska pipeline drops below ground to allow migrating caribou and other animals to cross the line. A crew operating a drill rig-a 60,000 pound truck with a giant drill on the chassis planned to drive it across the pipeline but had failed to follow proper guidelines.

Drag reducing agent wikipedia
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A drag reducing agent, also called a flow improver, is a long chain polymer chemical that is used in crude oil, refined products or non-potable water pipelines. It is injected in small amounts (parts per million) and is used to reduce the frictional pressure drop along the pipeline's length.

Iraq embassy scandal expands
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EPCO did not adequately discharge its contract administration responsibilities. EPCO was managed by an individual who did not enforce contract provisions, most notably design and construction requirements, which resulted in many of the construction deficiencies listed. Of prime significance, construction deficiencies prevented the contracts from being completed on time, and Embassy personnel could not move as planned to the more secure facilities at the [embassy]. Even though First Kuwaiti did not meet the required contract completion dates for three contracts, covering housing, infrastructure, and support facilities, EPCO did not require First Kuwaiti to pay $10.9 million in liquidated damages. EPCO also approved $69.1 million in advance mobilization payments that were not authorized by the contracts and did not require First Kuwaiti to pay $3.3 million in interest for the use of those funds. EPCO approved contractor invoices without adequate documentation and did not require First Kuwaiti to comply with the reporting requirements of the Cargo Preference Act.
What makes this story all the more outrageous is that the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to build a $736 million massive US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan that is modeled after the Baghdad embassy.