M&T Whistleblower Earns Share of $64 Million Fine

By Steve Kardell | Published August 8, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: $60M whistleblower award, FHA-backed mortgages |

M&T Bank must pay $64 million to the federal government to resolve a whistleblower case, and at least $9.6 million of that settlement will go to a former employee from Buffalo who provided key information to investigators. In the initial lawsuit, the employee claimed the bank regularly broke a number of rules for loans insured Read More

University of Oregon to Pay Out $1 Million to Police Whistleblower

By Steve Kardell | Published August 4, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower award |

The University of Oregon settled a lawsuit with a former police officer, agreeing to pay the man $1 million to bring the case to an end. A federal jury found in September that the former police chief at the university, Carolyn McDermed, along with two other university police higher-ups, were guilty of retaliation against officer Read More

SEC Announces $3.5 Million Whistleblower Award

By Steve Kardell | Published August 1, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: SEC whistleblower award |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced a $3.5 million whistleblower award, the first of three awards handed out within the span of a week. The whistleblower was an employee who provided a unique, helpful tip that gave new life to an ongoing investigation on a company. The additional evidence of wrongdoing provided Read More

Illinois Company to Pay Out Nearly $200,000 in Whistleblower Penalties

By Steve Kardell | Published July 28, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower award |

According to federal safety officials, a company in Illinois must pay $190,547 in damages and back wages to a safety manager as the result of a whistleblower case that stemmed from its facility in Lansing, Illinois. The order came from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). After an investigation, commercial Read More

Employee at Regional Jail Files Retaliation Lawsuit

By Steve Kardell | Published July 25, 2016 | Posted in Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: employer retaliation |

A former sergeant at the Southern Regional Jail near Charleston, West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Regional Jail Authority, alleging employer retaliation. The man, Jason Hefner, says he was forced into resignation after reporting corruption within the jail system. According to the lawsuit, Hefner discovered the corruption after he conducted an investigation Read More

SEC Hands Out $5 Million Award to Whistleblower

By Steve Kardell | Published July 21, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: SEC whistleblower award |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in mid-May that it will award a whistleblower $5 million to $6 million for the person’s assistance in a recent investigation. The whistleblower was a former company insider who provided a detailed, unique tip that led the SEC to uncover significant securities violations it never would have Read More

Two People to Share $450,000 Whistleblower Award from SEC

By Steve Kardell | Published July 18, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower award |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will hand out a total of $450,000 split between two individuals who tipped off the agency to an incident of corporate wrongdoing and provided valuable assistance in the ensuing investigation. This was the third whistleblower award the SEC handed out within a single week span, with the total Read More

IG Confirms Sexual Assault Whistleblower Suffered Retaliation

By Steve Kardell | Published July 14, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower retaliation |

A new report from the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense confirms allegations of retaliation against an officer in the West Virginia National Guard after her sexual assault. Lt. Col. Teresa James reported in 2012 that she had been raped by a superior officer. After she reported the incident, Army Brig. Gen. Read More

Colorado Prison Whistleblower Awarded $280,000

By Steve Kardell | Published July 11, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: whistleblower award |

A former employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections was awarded $280,000 in a settlement after filing a whistleblower complaint accusing officials in state prisons of fudging figures about mentally ill and/or violent convicts. The whistleblower is Maureen O’Keefe, the former director of the Colorado DOC’s Office of Planning and Analysis. In her complaint, she Read More

New Report Indicates Increasing SEC Actions Against Businesses

By Steve Kardell | Published July 7, 2016 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: SEC actions against businesses |

A new report published by the NYU Pllack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research indicates that the number of actions the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought against public companies and their subsidiaries has increased recently. According to the report, the SEC brought 84 different actions against public entities and their subsidiaries Read More

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