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Clinton Eugene "Clint" Curtis (born 1958) is an American attorney, computer programmer and ex-employee of NASA and ExxonMobil. He worked for Yang Enterprises (YEI) until February 2001. He is notable chiefly for making a series of whistleblower allegations about his former employer and about Republican Congressman Tom Feeney, including an allegation that in 2000, Feeney and Yang Enterprises requested Curtis's assistance in a scheme to steal votes by inserting fraudulent code into touch screen voting systems. In 2006, Curtis ran unsuccessfully against Feeney for the United States congressional seat in Florida's 24th congressional district.〔 〕 He ran again in 2008, losing in the Democratic primary to eventual winner of the seat, Suzanne Kosmas. In 2007, Curtis enrolled as a student at the Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. In 2010, Clint Curtis was the Democratic nominee for Congress in California's 4th district, ultimately losing to incumbent Representative Tom McClintock. ==Initial allegations against Yang Enterprises and Tom Feeney== In 2001, Curtis first achieved public attention for a series of allegations against his former employer, Yang Enterprises, and against Tom Feeney, who was at that time serving as a Florida state legislator and as Yang's attorney and as Yang's lobbyist for local governments. On May 10, 2001, shortly after leaving Yang and accepting a job with the Florida Department of Transportation, Curtis reported that Yang had overbilled the FDOT and hired an illegal alien. Approximately a year later, on April 1, 2002, Curtis and his supervisor were both fired, allegedly for violating FDOT policies. (Although Curtis's supervisor later settled a retailiation lawsuit brought relating to her firing, Curtis reports that he did not sue because he "missed the filing deadline.") During that same year, Curtis's accusations against Yang were the subject of a series of articles in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Yang Enterprises denied Curtis's allegations, and alleged that Curtis was a disgruntled former employee. According to the ''St. Petersburg Times'', Curtis made his initial accusations against Yang one day after attorneys for Yang Enterprises questioned whether Curtis's employment with the FDOT violated a non-compete agreement and whether Curtis had taken a confidential computer program with him when he left Yang. According to the ''St. Petersburg Times'', "Curtis said he would not have filed complaints about Yang if the company had not harassed him."〔 Curtis denies that he stole any software from Yang Enterprises, and as of August 10, 2006, a lawsuit between Yang and Curtis was ongoing in Leon County, Florida.〔 Ultimately, Curtis' initial allegations led to mixed results: * After investigation, the Florida Department of Transportation demanded that Yang repay $97,000 in "questionable charges," but was unable to conclude whether Yang had engaged in intentional misconduct, largely because of poor record keeping and Yang's refusal to permit the FDOT to audit Yang's files directly during the course of litigation. * According to documents from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) and according to Federal officials at the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, convicted spy and Chinese national, Hai Lin Nee (a/k/a Henry Nee) had been --- as Curtis alleged, first in 2001 and again in his sworn affidavit,〔http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf〕 an illegal alien during the period that Curtis worked with him at YEI.〔http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4454〕 The report also shows that YEI --- who has on several occasions denied that Nee was ever an employee, or even a consultant at YEI --- petioned the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) on Nee's behalf to extend his visa sometime during 1999.〔 * Curtis's charges that then-state representative Tom Feeney improperly lobbied the Florida Department of Transportation on behalf of Yang, were considered, but ultimately rejected by the Florida State Commission on Ethics. In September 2004, Curtis self-published ''Just A Fly On The Wall'', a book critical of the George W. Bush administration, Yang Enterprises, and Tom Feeney.〔 In the edition of that book published before the 2004 election, Curtis focused on his earlier accusations against Yang, as well as accusations that Feeney used his influence with the Florida State government to Yang's benefit.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clint Curtis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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