Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 2, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

NY to go after Evans Bank for racial redlining — The one-hundred year old Buffalo-based bank is being accused of “deliberately choking off mortgage lending to predominantly minority communities.”  NYT

More on the CDC vaccine whistleblower — Opinion piece on the “apparent efforts by most media outlets to censor and downplay this story and try to discredit people reporting on it.”  Epoch Times

New report on Rotherham whistleblower — The BBC’s Panorama recently reported on the disclosures of a researcher in the United Kingdom’s Home Office concerning more than 1,400 children in Rotherham, England allegedly being the victims of sexual exploitation from 1997 to 2013. National Review

Chief of DOJ criminal fraud section leaving — Jeffrey H. Knox, who oversaw a number of high-profile investigations and settlements against the likes of Barclays, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Rabobank, Hewlett-Packard Co., Johnson & Johnson,  Pfizer, BP and Halliburton, will be joining his prior firm Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.  WSJ

First Dodd-Frank whistleblower award for a compliance officer — The SEC has made its first award, $300k, to a whistleblower who works as a compliance officer; the employee reported wrongdoing to the SEC when the company failed to take action after the whistleblower reported the problem internally.  SEC

NY Representative Michael Grimm due in federal court on fraud charges — Grimm, who serves Staten Island and is up for reelection in November, has been indicted on 20 counts, including tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy in connection with his former health food restaurant in Manhattan.  7Online