Whistleblower News From The Inside -- June 13, 2017
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Trump targets financial watchdog agency — “The Treasury Department said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be substantially stripped of its powers, accusing the agency of regulatory overreach and saying the president should be able to remove its director.” NYT
Mastermind of lottery fraud will tell how he rigged jackpots — “Prosecutors will seek a 25-year prison sentence for former Multi-State Lottery Association security director Eddie Tipton, the mastermind of a scheme that rocked the lottery industry. His brother, former Texas judge Tommy Tipton, is expected to face 75 days in jail.” US News
Why gold buyers are so susceptible to fraud — “No one can say precisely how much gold fraud takes place, but in 2014, a Senate committee looked at 34 federal cases involving more than 9,000 victims who lost more than $300 million, an estimate that the committee itself labeled ‘conservative.'” MarketWatch