Whistleblowers

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• Marv Roffman-II

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 502
  "But for Mr. [Brian] Kennedy, the call brought internal pressure and unexpected criticism. He found himself the subject of a complaint to the [SEC] brought by CardioNet and faced an in-house inquiry by Jeffries lawyers while his research was being pummeled by competitors. Mr. Kennedys case is an example of the ...
  13 hours ago

• Investigation at Public Works...but no details permitted

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 572
  Once again, an example of the Harper government in action that calls into question their commitment to some basic democratic principles such as transparency and access to information: "Public Works reveals wrongdoing after probe." We learn, because the government finally deigned to tell us, the following, but dont ...
  16 hours ago

• Whistleblowing: A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 111
  I have received calls and emails asking why the NWC supports UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld.  This article published on Forbes.com helps answer that question.  Mr. Birkenfeld, like countless other employees, blew the whistle because he believed it was the right thing to do.  When Mr. Birkenfeld’s multiple ...
  4 days ago

• You Ain’t the Only One

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 130
  Here’s a first-rate story for you, courtesy of The Star Ledger . Newark air traffic controller feels vindicated after speaking out against safety concerns ”Raymond Adams, an air traffic controller at Newark Airport, risked his job to speak out against safety concerns there.” It’s almost enough to ...
  4 days ago

• Upcoming Training Seminar to Focus on National Security

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 111
  The National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund will host a conference call training seminar covering a number of innovative and alternative ways to successfully represent national security employees. The three presenters, Mark S. Zaid , Stephen M. Kohn , and David K. Colapinto , all seasoned ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Dangerous Work

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Congress should fix holes in legislation intended to protect whistle-blowers at public companies from being penalized for reporting wrongdoing.
  1 week ago

• "UBS Tax Cheat To Demand Billions In Whistleblower Rewards"

  
  PointOfLaw Forum — Authority: 498
  Bizarrely overincentivizing stoolpigeonery, part CCLIX in a series. [ WSJ Law Blog , Business Insider ]
  1 week ago

• Ex-UBS Banker Seeks Billions for Blowing Whistle

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Bradley C. Birkenfeld, who helped American clients illegally evade taxes and then helped the United States government find them, could reap a giant reward.
  2 weeks ago

• IEA Whistleblowers

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 502
  gaius marius has a 10 November 2009 post at his Decline and Fall of Western Civilization about a recent international energy agency report about oil reserves and a whistleblower who claims the report was doctored to suit american interests. Heres a link: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 565
  One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born baby daughter, who was running a small bakery in Jalalabad, Afghanistan at the time of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Fearing that he would be seized in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letter from Douglass Kinan to Senator Lieberman re: Ongoing Government Corruption

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 106
    TIME SENSITIVE REQUEST Via fax: 202-224-9750/860-549-8478/866/317-2242 & US Mail 34 Glenburnie Road Boston, MA 02132 November 13, 2009 Honorable Senator Joseph Lieberman ATTN: Clarine Nardi-Riddle, Chief of Staff 706 Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510 RE: REQUEST TO BE AN EXPERT GOVERNMENT ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sathya Sai Baba 84th Birthday Celebrations. Will 21st Century India Tolerate The Shame That Is Puttaparthi?

  
  Call For Media and Government Investigation — Authority: 124
  Unimaginable splurgings of pomp, ceremony and conspicuous waste attend, year after year, Sathya Sai Baba’s imperial-like birthday celebrations. The global financial meltdown will not have melted down his vast reserves of gold. Many politicians from right across India’s political spectrum fall at Sathya Sai ...
  2 weeks ago

• I think the Conservatives owe Colvin a cash reward

  
  A BCer in Toronto — Authority: 420
  Once again, the gap between Conservative rhetoric and Conservative reality is gaping. This time, whistleblowing is in the spotlight. Heres what the Conservatives had to say about whistleblowers in their 2006 election platform, Stand-Up for Canada: And heres what they have to say about whistleblowers now : ...
  3 weeks ago

• How We Pay for Pharma’s Crooked Dealings

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 419
  As everyone knows by now, the main reason we can’t get a health reform bill enacted is because the phamaceutical and insurance industries aren’t happy with their piece of the action. This despite the fact that when politicians talk about cutting costs, what they really have in mind is cutting services to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Moodys Exonerated

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 502
  "Moodys Corp., the owner of credit-ratings firm Moodys Investors Service, boosted its profit forecast for the year as a boom in corporate-debt issuance helped it maintain operating margins of almost 40%. The New York-based company also said an external investigation into allegations of impropriety by a former analyst ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ex-Engineer for Lockheed Files Lawsuit Over F-22 Jet

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A lawsuit claims Lockheed Martin used defective coatings on its F-22 Raptor stealth jets.
  4 weeks ago

• They just want you to go away….

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 106
  FAA Whistleblower: “They don’t want you to be part of the solution; they want you to go away.” “After 25 years at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, an air-traffic controller who blew the whistle on Federal Aviation Administration misconduct is quitting. Anne Whiteman started reporting problems 12 years ago at the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ripped From Which Headlines? "Boy Gone Astray" and "Doped"

  
  Brow Beat — Authority: 129
  We all know that Law & Order rips its stories from the headlines—but which headlines? Every week, Brow Beat matches L&O s plot points to the events that inspired them. Nov. 6, 2009: "Boy Gone Astray" These Are Their Stories In the first act, a female drug dealer is murdered by two 14-year-old ...
  4 weeks ago

• On The Couch… Some Weekend Reading

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 554
  Such a busy pharma world and so little time to keep up, yes? Like you, we always poke around for items of interest, and so we thought we would point out a few you may enjoy from the past week. Think of it as a little bit of catching up. Meanwhile, we hope your weekend is enjoyable - a nice day for a ride in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Atheists are God’s whistleblowers

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 416
  There’s this quotation that I’ve seen twice now…first from a USAToday article , and then from the New York Times . Samir Selmanovic, who I have previously never heard of, writes that: Atheism at its best grabs us by the collar and throws us to the ground, demanding to see lives well lived, forcing us to dig ...
  4 weeks ago

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