40yearfan

Who assaulted the Los Alamos whistle-blower?

Sandra Blakeslee
New York Times
Jun. 9, 2005 12:00 AM

SANTA FE - Los Alamos National Lab, which unlocked the secrets of the nuclear age, is pondering a new mystery: Who beat up the whistle-blower?

Early Sunday morning, at closing time, Tommy Ray Hook, an auditor who has accused the lab's management of accounting irregularities, was assaulted in the parking lot of a topless dance club.

Hook, 52, is not sure how many men attacked him, but he said they delivered a message: He should keep his mouth shut. advertisement




Hook suffered a fractured jaw, concussion, herniated disk and other injuries, including boot marks on his face.

Hook would not comment for this article, but his wife, Susan, and lawyer, Robert Rothstein, are providing details. According to them, Hook said he got a phone call at 10:30 Saturday night from someone identifying himself as a lab auditor who had new information about fraud. Could they meet at Cheeks, a topless bar here?

They said Hook arrived at the bar at 11:30, drank two or three light beers and sat by himself. The auditor did not show. Sometime after 1:30 a.m., Hook went to his car, whereupon he was dragged into the parking lot and beaten. A bouncer broke up the brawl.

The FBI says only that the inquiry is continuing. But Peter Stockton, a senior investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group in Washington that is assisting Hook, has accused the FBI of leaking information to news organizations that paints a different story.

In this version, Hook went to the bar because his wife was away that night. He had several drinks. He got a lap dance. When he left the bar, he nearly backed into someone with his car, setting off the fight.

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nidan

Yep I heard this on the radio, weird story but seems so far to be legit.

Very weird indeed

phillycard

This sounds like a good premise for a movie! Speaking of which, everytime I hear the term "blow the whistle" I think of that scene in "The Game" with Michael Douglas where he told the guy at the zoo, that he was going to blow the whistle, and the guy said "what ****ing whistle?! There is no whistle!"

40yearfan

Doesn't it seem funny that you'd meet a guy at a "topless" bar at 11:30 and stay there until 1:30 waiting for the guy who doesn't show up? Oh, and your wife just happened to be out of town that night. Convienent excuse.

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KloD

I hope you never sit on a jury...

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40yearfan

So you are saying don't look at the other side if you don't agree with it?

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KloD

Of course not. While I was joking, it did seem as if you were pretty sure of his story being weak and unrealistic.

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nidan

From what I've heard the guy is an old very quiet accountant, basicly a homebody.

The story is that he was lured there for the purposes of having the snot kicked out of him. Like I said a weird story.

nidan

I understand he also has witnesses to document he movements that evening.

There is apparently is evidence to support his claim of being lured there.

conraddobler

I'm with ya 40, I don't stay 2 hours and I don't meet someone at a strip club I don't know anything about.

If you read the Yahoo version it says police now believe he backed into a pedestrian while leaving and that's what started the whole thing.

I wasn't there and I'm not gonna judge the guy.

His story however is fishy.

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ajcardfan

I agree that his story just doesn't ring true. Besides, I'd hope that our government would pick a much more effective method than that to keep him quiet.

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conraddobler

Gas to get there 8$

Sneaking away to a strip club when your wife is away, 100 to 3000 depending on how perverted or drunk your are.

Medical bills =lots of $$$$$$

Having the mother of all excuses for an evening gone horribly wrong.... priceless.

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CaptTurbo

And you guys are wondering why Deepthroat stayed anonomous.