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Whistleblower News From The Inside — November 24, 2015

Posted  November 24, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

FDA targets inaccurate medical tests — “Inaccurate and unreliable medical tests are prompting abortions, promoting unnecessary surgeries, putting tens of thousands of people on unneeded drugs and raising medical costs, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded.”  NYT

Lesson from Case Keenum: NFL must hold teams accountable for concussion protocol violations — “When players break NFL rules designed to promote player safety, they pay fines and face potential suspension. What happens when teams violate, or outright ignore, player safety guidelines? The league will provide an answer soon.”  Washington Post

Why whistleblowers are crucial for cycling and other sports — “They have to understand that this is necessary…that whistleblowers are not people who blame the sport, but who help the sport.”  Cycling News

The threat within: insider fraud on the rise — “In the past year, a whistleblower was at least partially responsible for exposing 41% of cases of fraud that were uncovered. This is well ahead of the next two most frequent sources of discovery, external audits (31%) or internal audits (25%).  Kroll Global Fraud Report

Pfizer’s big breakthrough: global tax avoidance — “The $160 billion deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan, the maker of Botox, does not appear to be illegal. But it should be.”  NYT

NYC will pay $150K to settle retaliation lawsuit from whistleblower cop who said police were changing crime stats — NYPD Sergeant Robert Borrelli “is the second police whistleblower in recent weeks to pocket a six-figure payout to settle their federal lawsuits that alleged the NYPD was cooking the Compstat books during then-Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s administration.”  Daily News

Praise for report showing US failure towards intelligence whistleblowers — Whistleblower Thomas Drake, who in 2010 became the first American charged with espionage in almost 40 years and who was a predecessor of Edward Snowden, applauds a new report by the PEN American Center accusing the government of failing to protect whistleblowers.  Truthdig