| For Immediate Release Oct 14, 2003 |
Contact: Press Office 202-646-5188 |
Potter Kept Brentwood Postal Workers in Contaminated Facility Days After Other Government Buildings Closed Senior USPS Managers Deceived Brentwood Postal Workers and Withheld Facts of Contamination Public Placed at Risk: Mail From Contaminated Building Shipped-out For Delivery on Night of Brentwood Facility Closure Press Conference DATE: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 TIME: 12:00 Noon PLACE: National Press Club 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that it will hold a press conference at 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at the National Press Conference to announce the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of U.S. postal workers who worked at the Brentwood Postal Facility in Washington, DC against Postmaster General John E. Potter and senior postal officials. The lawsuit alleges the postal workers’ Fifth Amendment rights were violated by Potter and others when they withheld information concerning the contamination of the Brentwood mail facility with the deadly anthrax pathogen in October, 2001. | |