Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 11, 2015
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
US Labor Department finds for Hanford whistleblower — The US Secretary of Labor finds that Walt Ford, a former employee of Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant “was wrongfully terminated by Bechtel National, Inc. in 2011 in retaliation for raising safety concerns.” Hanford Challenge
Guggenheim Partners pays $20M to settle SEC charges — The government charged the company with failing to disclose a $50 million loan by a client to one of its senior executives. NYT
Iraq parliament passes sweeping anti-corruption plan — “The move came after mass protests across Iraq against corruption and poor governance, focused on frequent power outages which have made a recent heat wave even more unbearable.” CBS
US says Lance Armstrong medical records critical to whistleblower case — The government claims the records from the Indiana University School of Medicine could be key to proving fraud in the whistleblower lawsuit. Cycling News
Tax return preparers sentenced to prison for facilitating offshore tax fraud scheme — David Kalai and his son Nadav are sentenced respectively to 36 and 50 months in prison for assisting “their high net-worth clients in concealing millions of dollars of assets and income in secret foreign bank accounts and filing false federal income tax returns.” DOJ
In His Own Words: The Invisible Sentence Against Whistleblower John Kiriakou — Truthdig