Background
Colapinto was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on December 4, 1958.
Colapinto was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on December 4, 1958.
Boston University.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from Antioch School of Law (Class of 1987) after graduating from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in history. While at Boston University, he was an investigative reporter for the b.u. exposure, a student-run independent newspaper dedicated to exposing financial and ethical irregularities of the administration of B.U. President John Silber. Colapinto was successful in the first case in which a "hostile work environment" was found to exist for a whistleblower who worked at a nuclear power plant.
He also helped obtain whistleblower protection for Federal Bureau of Investigation employees and helped force the Federal Bureau of Investigation crime lab to obtain accreditation, the latter development involving him in the O.J. Simpson Trial.
As co-counsel to Doctor Frederic Whitehurst, Colapinto was behind the lawsuit that forced the Department of Justice to implement regulations protecting Federal Bureau of Investigation employee whistleblowers. Internal Revenue Service. Colapinto is General Counsel for the Forensic Justice Project, and he also serves as general counsel for the National Whistleblower Center.
He also served as counsel in the law firm"s successful defense of Linda Tripp in her Privacy Acting lawsuit against the Departments of Justice and Defense and in defending Marita Murphy in her lawsuit Murphy v.