Largely under the public radar, the last decade has seen a legal revolution in the United States in the area of corporate freedom of speech. Although a hodgepodge of
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Federal prosecutors say a New Mexico-based defense contractor with offices in Williston is going to pay over a million dollars to settle billing fraud charges. Read this
Lucent Technologies Worldwide Services (LTWSI), a subsidiary of Franco-American telecom company Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU, ALU message board), agreed to
The Project On Government Oversight applauds Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Todd Platts (R-Pa.) for introducing the bipartisan Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection
In a letter submitted Friday afternoon to internal investigators at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a whistleblower engineer within the agency accused regulators of
Steve Berman, managing partner at Hagens Berman, a nationwide whistleblower protection law firm, today lauded an award the Internal Revenue made to former
A former Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital psychiatrist who claimed his contract with the hospital was wrongfully terminated in 2009 has recently filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit
2012 is quickly shaping up to become The Year of the Scandal on Wall Street – a tall order considering the run of disrepute we've seen over the past decade. One would
Omnicare Inc. (OCR), a supplier of drugs to nursing homes, agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it paid a kickback in buying a pharmacy company, and that it submitted false
You've probably never heard of Peter Sivere, a former compliance officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Yet his distressing story shows on a personal level that
Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday about "secrecy creep" – the retaliation against whistleblowers that has crept down from the White House into Executive branch
The Justice Department's inspector general has created a new position to help protect department whistleblowers and educate staff about them -- a move that comes
Federal courts are providing the first glimpses into how they intend to interpret the scope of the Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower provisions, and so far, their decisions have
The Internal Revenue Service has begun processing more claims under its whistleblower program, paying over 90 awards since October 2011, after an influential senator
A jackpot of $250m (£161m) is the sort of figure that creates long queues at lottery machines on Saturday mornings. But Greg Thorpe does not sound like someone who
Seventeen months after filing a lawsuit alleging that Infosys had subjected him to harassment and retaliation following his whistleblower claim of rampant visa and tax fraud
Kyle Lagow, a Bank of America whistleblower who hired Hagens Berman to represent him, was featured in a Reuters article. Mr. Lagow exposed an alleged scheme that
The head of ATF recently warned employees that they will face "consequences" if they don't "respect the chain of command," in what Republican lawmakers are decrying
The U.S. government has been collecting data on nearly every U.S. citizen and assembling webs of their relationships, National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney
Would you be able to keep a secret for four years that was so big it would make the five large U.S. banks pay up about $25 billion in a legal settlement? Kyle Lagow of Plano
