Walsh Construction — a behemoth builder of roads, bridges and buildings with long ties to the Daley family — has paid $6.4 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that
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Eileen Foster beamed as she accepted an award at the National Press Club in Washington for blowing the whistle on mortgage fraud at Countrywide Financial, but
ATK Launch Systems Inc. has agreed to a $36.9 million settlement with the federal government to resolve a whistleblower's complaint that it sold dangerous and
In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company's largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In
A federal judge in Baltimore has awarded $462,500 to a low-level merchant officer who alerted Coast Guard inspectors that his cargo ship was intentionally polluting the
On the night of July 25, 2010, a section of the continent's vast pipeline network spilled around a million gallons of chemical-laden crude into western Michigan waterways. Though
The City Council considered a package of bills aimed at preventing fraud in city contracting and strengthening protections for the people who expose it during a hearing
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the senior Republican on a Senate committee overseeing immigration and visa policy is calling for action following a CBS News report
We've all had this happen: you call an American company's 800 number for help, and end up talking to someone in a foreign country. It's called outsourcing. American
A former state advocate for seniors in nursing homes fired by the Department of Elder Affairs will have his day in court. Brian Lee was the former Ombudsman for the
The Consumer Justice Foundation, a for-profit corporation whose team of consumer advocates provides free online informational resources regarding the potential dangers
Hours after the internet release of the incriminating Gregg Williams audio encouraging New Orleans Saints players to injure San Francisco 49ers players, the leaker
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed and simultaneously settled charges against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMorgan) for its
There were moments when William Zwicharowski wondered if he should bend to pressure from superiors at a mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. An Archbald
Russia's leading corruption whistleblower on Friday accused Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's close ally Igor Shuvalov of graft. Alexei Navalny posted on his blog the
Steve Berman, managing partner of Hagens Berman, will be speaking at the 2012 Litigating Class Actions Conference in Seattle on May 14-15, 2012. The event will be
One of the government's longest-running whistleblower controversies recently took a new twist when three House Democrats successfully filed a friend of the court brief
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) directors, including Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison, were sued by an investor for failing to mitigate damages when the company agreed to
Five Harbert construction companies, most of which reportedly are defunct, have agreed to pay $47 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations of bid-rigging on
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has called for disciplinary action against three Port Mortuary supervisors at the Dover Air Force Base who retaliated against whistleblowers
