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
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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
For nearly three years, as Kyle Lagow struggled to find work and his finances crumbled, he kept a secret from nearly everyone he knew, including his wife: He was
More than 20 years ago, 87 servicewomen were sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. Navy, in what became known as the "Tailhook scandal." Paula Coughlin
Christ Hospital has paid nearly $1.8 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that a doctor was signing off on vascular tests, and charging Medicare, without reading
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said that taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. We experience the literal truth of his words when revenues come up
A U.S. judge bolstered protection for corporate whistleblowers on Monday by ruling the Dodd-Frank law gave retroactive protection to employees of subsidiaries, not
A whistleblower from Barclays Bank makes the obvious point that former CEO Bob Diamond had to know about the various fixings of the Libor benchmark inter-bank lending rate before he claims to have found out:
Two Fast and Furious whistleblowers have reportedly been placed under the supervision of an ATF official who allegedly threatened to "take them down." That's according
