USC Takes Out A Confidential Informant - Termination Planning as Whistleblower Retaliation
Last edited Thu Apr 27, 2023, 08:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Published April 26, 2023
By Zachary Ellison
When the University of Southern California (USC) gets ready to take out on their own, it likes to make a show of it, and to do that it uses what is known in the Human Resources world as termination planning to manage the process and ostensibly reduce the risk of litigation through good-faith, best practices in management science. USC’s termination planning is the inversion this in reality, if there’s two things it excels at its gaslighting and blackmail, and I knew to expect it coming. I was USC’s worst HR problem, the employee who kept blowing the whistle on misconduct and non-compliance, who had even managed to obtain an independent investigation report from USC’s own attorney working under the direction of Senior Vice President of Human Resources that was critical of HR business practices in the Office of the Provost, and implicitly in relation to Human Resources at large, for which our unit was a key component. From the moment I was hired, I had been an easy target for my former Human Resources Director, who delighted in treating me as the Administrative Assistant for the Vice Provost for Academic Operations in a purposefully diminutive way. The curt text messages to bring her water, to confronting me face-to-face for not signing the Holiday party as signed for her unit alone, to threatening me in my office with retaliation. You know when they are after you, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about bullies, it’s that the thing they hate most is when their misconduct is recorded. You really don’t chose to just go to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (ED OCR) to cooperate, you have to be so shocked by what you’re seeing, and treated with such contempt for objecting to its occurrence that they simply leave you no choice but to want to nominally turn against them.
https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-20-usc-takes-out-a-confidential
This is my story. I know to some people this seems like a world away, but I can assure you this has been and continues to be the front page issues of the news of Los Angeles. So I hope that people will find it to be an interesting read, versus a battery of complaints.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
Zach
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I've given the Western USC 
the chance to respond with their version of events in formal response as part of investigation and to date despite two investigators being assigned, including an outside counsel, they've simply decided to stonewall.
As to the election, I've been letting the evidence speak for itself, and delayed telling my full story to allow for internal investigation and to try and respond to the chaos created by the LA Fed recordings make the point.
The Kevin De Léon - Sam Garrison conversation description is at 13:44 in the full recording:
It's Clip 1B in the original Reddit posting with the recordings: https://www.reddit.com/user/Honest-Finding-1581/comments/xirs3o/la_county_federation_of_labor_scam/
And here's the excerpt from Ludlow to Caruso:
- Martin Ludlow gets multiple contracts with the LA fed. Remember him? He and Miguel Contreras were investigated for fraud and Contreras would have gone to jail if he didn't die first.
- The wife of Justin Wesson works as the Chief of Staff for Nury Martinez, Alexis Wesson.
- If Rick Caruso wins the Mayor's race, he will clean house at City Hall, including making sure Nury Martinez is out. That would put Wesson out of a job. So, the LA Fed is putting all it's money in Karen Bass's campaign.
https://www.reddit.com/user/Honest-Finding-1581/comments/xirs3o/la_county_federation_of_labor_scam/
I do know exactly what I observed on August 18, 2022 and then what I reported on August 26, 2022 and the circumstances under which that occurred. I think you have to consider that I'm self-identifying as a citizen-informant for the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, that this went on for years undetected, that I know Sam Garrison fairly well, and that I have some professional experience in observing people including in relation to law enforcement as a park ranger and civil process server. It's in the hands of professionals now, all I can really do is be the person who wanted to protect my fellow employees and see justice served. To the extent that I was aware of Rick Caruso's mayoral ambitions for some time and watched all that happen, I'm not a totally impartial observer, but that doesn't mean I'm fundamentally dishonest. I mostly think it's funny that this has been so successful for 6+ months now in disrupting LA Government to cost of hundreds of thousands in extra law enforcement costs, and there's still no official explanation.
There's actually been a prior whistleblowing attempt of this nature against USC as well: https://www.kcet.org/shows/socal-connected/lawsuit-alleges-usc-deleted-evidence-maintained-negative-files-against-employees
Does South Carolina really get media like us? We spent years getting scandal coverage by the Los Angeles Times and beyond. Over $1.1 billion dollars was paid in legal settlements over George Tyndall. Netflix even made a documentary about the Admissions Scandal with Matthew Modine as the narrator. And we're better at football!
...just gets omitted from the thumbnail imagine and media asset so the title gets "..." added. Helps for other platforms that are more image and less writing based than Democratic Underground - DU 
Everyone knows UCLA though! It's recognizable. Also, how many headline articles have you read about the South Carolina "USC" - a few years ago when they made that formalized I almost wish we could have sued them!
I'm going with newsworthy on the headline 
