Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 12, 2014
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Regulators hit five banks with $3.4 billion penalty – The fines, levied against UBS, HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JP Morgan, are for manipulation of the foreign exchange market. Reuters
22,000 dental patients in U.K. health scare — The patients have been urged to check for HIV and hepatitis infections after a whistleblower raised alarms that a dentist was using shoddy infection controls. The Guardian
USAID watchdog called “inaccurate and misleading” – Senator Coburn is questioning the answers the agency’s deputy inspector general gave during an investigation of claims that the IG’s office improperly altered and removed negative findings from audit reports. Washington Post
eBay bans whistleblower – A consumer watchdog was banned from the company’s website after the whistleblower tried to warn consumers of hundreds of counterfeit products found on the website. Business Insider