By Steve Kardell | Published December 11, 2017 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: leaks, President Donald Trump, Whistleblower protections not in question | Comments Off on President Trump Calls on UN to Offer More Whistleblower Protections
President Trump Calls on UN to Offer More Whistleblower Protections
In President Donald Trump’s first official speech at the United Nations, he urged the global body to take more steps to protect whistleblowers. In his remarks, he spoke about a need for the UN to offer greater protections to UN officials who speak up about internal wrongdoing, saying, “We seek a United Nations that regains Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Earns Award for Helping Secure $2 Million Settlement in Contract Rigging Case
A whistleblower was recently paid $470,000 of a $2 million settlement after successfully challenging what she believed — with agreement from government prosecutors — to be a shell company at Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The subcontractor who was put in charge of setting up this shell company, Federal Engineers and Constructors, worked under a joint venture Read More
Read MoreCorporate Whistleblower Center Aims to Identify Nursing Home Employees Who Can Serve as Whistleblowers
The Corporate Whistleblower Center recently launched an ambitious new initiative designed to help nursing home and skilled nursing facility employees received rewards for providing information proving their employer is billing Medicare for services not rendered or hours never worked. The organization believes nursing homes and/or skilled nursing facilities that bill Medicare for hours not worked Read More
Read MoreSen. Chuck Grassley Refers to Whistleblowers as ‘Heroes and Patriots’
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has been a consistent advocate and champion for whistleblowers throughout his entire tenure, which began in the early 1980s. For example, he was one of the senators who helped initiate and support some of the most important advances in whistleblower law in the three decades since. With the help of Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Receives SEC Awards Despite Being Culpable, Delaying Evidence
In late July, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it would pay $1.7 million to a whistleblower who provided important information to the agency. This was despite the fact that the whistleblower had some culpability in the fraud, delayed the reporting of that fraud to the SEC and failed to comply with a Dodd-Frank Read More
Read MoreAuto Loans the Subject of Latest Scandal for Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is once again the subject of public criticism not even a year after its major fake account scandal. This time, the subject is how the company issues automotive loans. The New York Times recently broke the news of a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco investigation into Wells Fargo’s auto loan policies after Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Lawsuit Related to Cancer Drug Marketing Leads to Celgene Paying $280 Million
Celgene Corporation, a biotech company based in New Jersey, will pay out $280 million to settle claims that it cited uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in promotion of its cancer treatment drugs Thalomid and Fevlimid. According to Judge George H. King, the plaintiff “provided sufficient evidence” that the corporation Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Awarded $9 Million in Case Against PHH Corp.
A whistleblower recently received $9.4 million for the role she played in identifying misconduct at PHH Corp, a mortgage lender based in New Jersey. The corporation will be responsible for paying $74.5 million to resolve claims that the company’s loan practices put the government and borrowers at risk. The settlement was announced by the U.S. Read More
Read MoreSEC Whistleblower Awards Total Reaches $158 Million
In late July, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials announced there were two more cases in which the regulator handed out whistleblower awards, totaling $4.2 million for the two whistleblowers. The total of the whistleblower payments distributed through the program is now at $158 million. One of the awards was announced on July 27 and Read More
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