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Vatican Puts Out the Call for Whistleblowers

Posted 02/7/24

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The Vatican wants to hear from whistleblowers. This comes from the Vatican's recent release of a new Whistleblower Procedure, which outlines the Vatican's official enlistment of Church insiders to help keep the Holy House in order when it comes to financial fraud and corruption. According to a post in Vatican News, the official news portal of the Vatican Holy See, the new procedure, which took effect last week...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Celebrating Whistleblowers on World Whistleblower Day

Posted 06/23/23

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Today (June 23) is World Whistleblower Day. It was originally created in 2019 by a group of NGOs to raise global awareness of the critical role whistleblowers play in combatting fraud and corruption. One of the principal groups behind the special day, and the one that promotes it the most widely, is Transparency International. It is the independent, not-for-profit NGO dedicated to stopping corruption and...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers,

Ontario Securities Commission Report on Successful First 5 Years of its Whistleblower Program Shows $43M in Total Sanctions/Voluntary Payments Thanks to Whistleblowers

Posted 03/13/23

Constantine Cannon applauds the Ontario Securities Commission Whistleblower Program on a very positive update on its performance from 2016 to 2022. Constantine Cannon attorneys have been following the development of the OSC Whistleblower Program with interest from the beginning, and we are pleased to represent participating whistleblowers. The March 9, 2023 report highlights the success of the OSC Whistleblower...

Tagged in: International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Rewards,

America’s Whistleblower Programs are a Beacon for International Whistleblowers

Posted 09/28/22

Constantine Cannon whistleblower partner Mary Inman and associate Liz Soltan wrote a guest post for the Taxpayers Against Fraud blog about the role of international whistleblowers in providing an increasing number of tips under the various American whistleblower reward programs. The U.S. leads the world in enlisting whistleblowers as force-multipliers to help law enforcement and regulators detect and root out fraud...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, FCPA, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Top FCPA Recoveries of 2021

Posted 01/14/22

We wish we could provide a list of the Top Ten FCPA recoveries of 2021. But, in 2021, there were just four FCPA settlements announced by government enforcement agencies. Following back-to-back years with billions of dollars in recoveries under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 2020 and 2019 momentum has, unfortunately, stalled. The FCPA prohibits the payment of bribes to foreign officials made with the...

Tagged in: FCPA, Financial and Investment Fraud, International Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Top 10,

CFTC’s Largest-Ever Whistleblower Award Edges out SEC and IRS Awards and Acts as a Calling Card for the CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program Globally

Posted 11/8/21

As we’ve reported in two recent blog posts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s recent award of $200 million to a whistleblower announced on October 21 is certainly the largest the CFTC has ever made, but also the largest award made under any federal whistleblower-reward program to a single whistleblower, including the False Claims Act. To appreciate the significance of this award, we wanted to give it...

Tagged in: CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program, Financial and Investment Fraud, Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Rewards,

Not Wanting to Be Left Behind, the UK Introduces Two Bills in Parliament Seeking to Improve UK’s Whistleblower Protections

Posted 07/2/21

The European Union is on the cusp of taking a quantum leap in the protection of whistleblowers. Whereas previously only 8 of the 27 member states had national laws protecting whistleblowers, the new EU Whistleblowing Directive (Directive 2019/1937) requires that all 27 member states transpose into national law sweeping whistleblower protections by the end of this year, creating a blanket of whistleblower protections...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Whistleblowers Without Borders: International Whistleblowers are Increasingly Important Contributors of Tips to the SEC Whistleblower Reward Program

Posted 06/11/21

On March 4, 2021, the SEC announced an award of over $5 million to joint foreign whistleblowers whose tip, providing significant information about misconduct abroad, caused the opening of an investigation that resulted in a successful SEC enforcement action. According to Jane Norberg, former Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, “The whistleblowers’ information alerted the staff to misconduct...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Rewards,

Listen to Mary Inman on BBC’s Business Daily Program “What Happens to Whistleblowers?”

Posted 05/21/21

Constantine Cannon’s own Mary Inman appeared on an episode of the Business Daily program from the BBC World Service, What Happens to Whistleblowers: How Exposing the Truth at Work Can Cost You Your Career. Listen at the Spotify link below, or on your preferred podcast platform. Mary was joined by whistleblowers Ian Foxley and Bianca Goodson and whistleblower psychotherapist David H. Martin for a discussion...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, Retaliation,

Partner Mary Inman joins Shaifali Joshi-Clark of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Whistleblower Office to discuss the OSC’s whistleblower reward program at Whistleblowing Canada Research Society event “The Expansion of Whistleblower Reward Programs in the U.S., Canada and Globally.”

Posted 04/30/21

On March 17, 2021, Constantine Cannon whistleblower partner Mary Inman joined Shaifali Joshi-Clark, a senior forensic accountant in the Whistleblower Office of the Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”), as a co-panellist for a webinar entitled “The Expansion of Whistleblower Reward Programs in the U.S., Canada and Globally,” organised by Whistleblowing Canada Research Society (“WCRS”) and moderated by...

Tagged in: CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program, FCA Federal, International Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Vatican Puts Out the Call for Whistleblowers

Celebrating Whistleblowers on World Whistleblower Day

Ontario Securities Commission Report on Successful First 5 Years of its Whistleblower Program Shows $43M in Total Sanctions/Voluntary Payments Thanks to Whistleblowers

America’s Whistleblower Programs are a Beacon for International Whistleblowers

Top FCPA Recoveries of 2021

CFTC’s Largest-Ever Whistleblower Award Edges out SEC and IRS Awards and Acts as a Calling Card for the CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program Globally

Not Wanting to Be Left Behind, the UK Introduces Two Bills in Parliament Seeking to Improve UK’s Whistleblower Protections

Whistleblowers Without Borders: International Whistleblowers are Increasingly Important Contributors of Tips to the SEC Whistleblower Reward Program

Listen to Mary Inman on BBC’s Business Daily Program “What Happens to Whistleblowers?”

Partner Mary Inman joins Shaifali Joshi-Clark of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Whistleblower Office to discuss the OSC’s whistleblower reward program at Whistleblowing Canada Research Society event “The Expansion of Whistleblower Reward Programs in the U.S., Canada and Globally.”

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