In Their Own Words - Kiriakou
Posted 02/4/15
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Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 4, 2015
Posted 02/4/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Canada to set up Dodd-Frank like whistleblower program? -- The Ontario Securities Commission is seeking public input on how to design a whistleblower program that would protect whistleblowers from retaliation and pay them up to $1.5 million for providing tips on securities crimes that lead to major prosecutions. Reuters
John Kiriakou released from prison -- Kiriakou, who was...
Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 3, 2015
Posted 02/3/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
S&P settles ongoing battle with US for almost $1.5B -- After more than two years of hard-fought litigation, the ratings giant finally settled government charges relating to its allegedly fraudulent ratings of mortgage securities that soured in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis. Reuters
New York accuses retailers of selling fraudulent and contaminated dietary supplements...
In Their Own Words - S&P analysts
Posted 02/3/15
-- "It could be structured by cows and we would rate it."
From instant-messaging exchange between two S&P analysts cited by government in its lawsuit against the ratings agency for allegedly fraudulent ratings of mortgage securities and which S&P just settled for nearly $1.5 billion. Click here for more.Monthly Roundup — January 2015
Posted 02/3/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Here is our look-back at the key whistleblower and fraud developments we have written about over the past month:
FEATURED POSTS AND COMMENTARY
This month's featured whistleblower posts and commentary included: Two Former Student Athletes Sue UNC and NCAA over Academic Scandal (here); With Jeffrey Sterling Conviction, The Great Whistleblower/Leaker Divide Endures (here);...
In Their Own Words - Thune
Posted 01/30/15
--“ENSURING THE SAFETY OF AMERICAN MOTORISTS IS A PRIORITY, BUT THE PUBLIC'S TRUST HAS BEEN SHAKEN DUE TO THE RECORD NUMBER OF RECALLS THIS PAST YEAR...THERE IS MUCH MORE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.”
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., one of the senators who reintroduced the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act.Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 30, 2015
Posted 01/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Senators push auto whistleblower bill -- A bipartisan group of U.S. senators reintroduced the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act – initially introduced in November -- to allow auto industry employee whistleblowers to potentially be paid millions if they reveal hidden dangers. Detroit News
VA admits to 'unauthorized' wait list at Denver hospital -- A day after the VA...
Two Former Student Athletes Sue UNC and NCAA over Academic Scandal
Posted 01/29/15
By Marlene Koury
The UNC academic scandal was first brought to light by one of Whistleblower Insider's nominees for Whistleblower of the Year, Mary Willingham, and was confirmed in the UNC-commissioned Wainstein report released last October. The report found that, during an 18 year period, more than 3,100 students enrolled in sham classes and nearly half of those students were student athletes, many of whom were...
With Jeffrey Sterling Conviction, The Great Whistleblower/Leaker Divide Endures
Posted 01/29/15
By Gordon Schnell
There has been no slowdown in the government's crackdown on intelligence whistleblowers. This despite the storm of support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and his revelations on the spy agency's largely renounced, and according to one federal court, "almost Orwellian," secret phone tapping program. See The Redemption of Edward Snowden. After Monday's jury conviction of former CIA officer...
Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 28, 2015
Posted 01/28/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The Fraud of the “Student-Athlete” Claim -- “That rhetoric sounds nice, but the NCAA has historically stood in the way of reform by perpetuating the myth that being a ‘student’ is always compatible with being an ‘athlete.’” NYT
5 things America's top whistleblower site is doing right (and wrong) -- A 5-point analysis of the Whistleblower Protection...