Whistleblower News From The Inside -- November 22, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Australia moving closer to adopting whistleblower rewards — “Australian whistleblowers could be paid a lavish ‘bounty’ for exposing wrongdoing in companies, government departments and charities under reforms to be introduced to Parliament next year by the Turnbull government.” Sydney Morning Herald

False Claims Act supporters not upset with Senator Sessions as Attorney General — “Fighting fraud is an area of bipartisan agreement. This is common ground, on which quite a lot can be built.” Corporate Crime Reporter

SEC Whistleblower Program records best year — “In its annual report to Congress, the SEC reported it issued awards totaling over $57 million in 2016 – higher than all award amounts issued in previous years combined.” Corporate Crime Reporter

World Anti-Doping Agency adopts whistleblower program — “WADA hopes the program will ‘encourage athletes, administrators and others, from across all sports and all countries, to raise concerns in good faith and on reasonable grounds of suspected doping’ and aims to incentivize athletes to come forward with information with a promise to ‘support, protect, and reward them as appropriate along the way.'” Cycling News

What will be the costs of whistleblowing in Trump’s America? — “It is essential to push our political decision makers to value these rights . . . [e]specially now when the campaign and rhetoric of Donald Trump foreshadows a presidency that will suppress these rights even further.” NJ Today

The one thing President Trump needs to know about the FCPA — “When FCPA critics say the law unfairly puts American companies at a disadvantage, they’re wrong.” FCPA Blog