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• They just want you to go away….

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 119
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• On The Couch… Some Weekend Reading

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 589
  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 ...
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• Atheists are God’s whistleblowers

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 419
  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 ...
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• November 2 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 657
  Worst, most dangerous legal trend of the moment: trial lawyers continue big Capitol Hill push to overturn Supreme Court’s valuable Iqbal and Twombly decisions on lawsuit procedure [ Point of Law and more , Thomas Dupree/WLF , Beck & Herrmann and more , earlier ] Lawyers rush to courthouse to beat ...
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• Waiting Whistleblowers

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 432
  "A three-year-old [IRS] program that promises hefty bounties for information on big tax cheats has succeeded in drawing whistleblowers. It just hasnt paid out any rewards yet. ... In its second annual report to Congress last week, the office said it got 476 submissions on 1,246 taxpayers in fiscal 2008, each of which ...
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• AstraZeneca Settles

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 469
  Here is the latest in the parade of legal settlements of cases of alleged wrong-doing by health care organizations.  As reported by Duff Wilson in the New York Times , The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Thursday that it had reached a $520 million agreement to settle two federal investigations and two ...
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• Another Pharmaceutical Company Settles Illegal Marketing and Promotion Lawsuits

  
  Bio Job Blog — Authority: 469
  The New York Times reported today that AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $520 million to settle two federal investigations and two whistle blower lawsuits over the sale, marketing and off-label promotion of its blockbuster antipsychotic drug Seroquel. Despite this settlement, UK-based AstraZeneca still must contend ...
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• Crack out the Binoculars, Chicago: Mayor Daley Will Pay You to Spy on Your Neighbor

  
  taxgirl — Authority: 532
  Times are tough in Chicago. You can only tax the citizenry so much – and Chicago already shares the distinction of being one of the most taxed cities in America . The solution? Enforcement. No big surprise there. But enforcement costs money. What if you could get your enforcement for free? What if… you ...
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• DCAA Director Forced to Leave!

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 119
  Head of Defense Contract Audit Agency forced out; Army official assigned as replacement By AP October 26th, 2009 Defense Department’s top auditor forced out WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s chief auditor has been forced from her post and moved to another job inside the Pentagon. The reassignment of ...
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• Chicagoans Could Get Paid for Turning in Tax Cheats

  
  Economix — Authority: 736
  Tired of watching your neighbors cheat on their taxes? Turn them in, and Chicago may give you a cut of the recovered funds.
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• Jury awards Colin Browne $282,000

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 124
  Mr. Colin Browne worked as a program advisor for the UDC Career Counseling and Development Center. Throughout his term, he discovered many flaws within the system. For example, Kevin Naiker, the former Director of UDC’s “Team 100” retention program, and others were purposely spinning the retention numbers. UDCs ...
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• The federal governments bullying on the Afghan probe continues

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 509
  The latest incredible effort at squeezing a witness: "Feds refuse legal funding to whistleblower diplomat." Richard Colvin, presently the deputy head of intelligence at the Canadian embassy in Washington, has retained independent counsel to assist him with his effort to testify at the Military Police Complaints ...
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• Hidden Treuhand: Crime Without Visible Law

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 119
  HIDDEN TREUHAND: NO LAW, NO CRIME by Shelley Stark    ‘ Treuhand ’ is a German language term that refers to a ‘legal trust’. Conversely, a hidden ‘ Treuhand ’ is completely non-transparent, only somewhat legal, and operates covertly. Hidden ‘ Treuhand ’ is used to hide the beneficial ownership ...
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• Out of Proportion: Our Government Oversight Agencies have lost it completely!

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 119
  The Heartland Of Corrupt Contracts Won’t Do Business With Acorn   Link to original:  http://prorev.com/2009/10/heartland-of-corrupt-contracts-wont-do.html     Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams - On Tuesday night, US Undersecretary of Defense Shay Assad, the Pentagon’s top contracting official, ...
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• Corporate whistleblowers options paper released

  
  Australian Regulatory Compliance Review brought to you by Langes+ — Authority: 127
  The Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, has released an options paper exploring strategies for improving protections for corporate whistleblowers. Currently, corporate whistleblowers are protected under Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 . ( section ...
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• Abu Ghraib - truth-telling and its consequences

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  courtesy of consortium news ... Editor’s Note: On Thursday night, former Army Sgt. Sam Provance received a letter of commendation from Common Cause – signed by former President Jimmy Carter and 15,000 others – for his “uncommon courage in defending the rule of law and standing up against torture.” In ...
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• Sibel Edmonds 101

  
  Skeptical Eye — Authority: 436
  A name you should know Sibel Edmonds is a name that every American should know. Because of our derelict media, however, most people have never heard of her, and many of those who have don’t know why she’s so important. But I hope to remedy all this. Not singlehandedly, of course. But I’m determined to do ...
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• Advocates Urge Attorney General Holder to Review UBS Whistleblower Case

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 124
  Today the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review the case of Bradley Birkenfeld , the international banker who blew the whistle on secret offshore accounts at UBS Bank in ...
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• World Radio Switzerland Interviews Stephen Kohn on UBS Whistleblower

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 124
  A reporter from World Radio Switzerland recently interviewed Stephen Kohn on Bradley Birkenfeld, the Swiss banker who blew the whistle on secret offshore accounts. Mr. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, recently became Mr. Birkenfeld’s lawyer, and is urging the U.S government to ...
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