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CFTC Whistleblower Hot Streak Continues with $9 Million Award

Posted 07/28/20

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This week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a new whistleblower award of approximately $9 million, one of the five largest awards ever paid by the agency. It is the latest in a wave of awards—four over the last three months, all over $1 million—demonstrating the CFTC’s strong commitment to its whistleblowers. These awards make good on CFTC Enforcement Director James McDonald’s...

Tagged in: CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program, FCPA, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Protection Laws, Whistleblower Rewards,

A Win-Win Solution: Italy Proposes a Legislative Hack for COVID-Related Whistleblowers

Posted 06/12/20

As part of Constantine Cannon’s participation in the Financial Times Global Legal Hackathon, Partner Mary Inman collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to develop a hack to empower and protect COVID19 whistleblowers in Italy. Contributors include: Nicoletta Parisi, a professor of International Law at Universita degli Studi di Catania; Priscilla Robledo, a former IP attorney who now works as a campaigner on behalf...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, COVID-19, Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Project Proposes Legislative Action to Protect and Incentivize AML Whistleblowers

Posted 05/29/20

Offshore Alert and the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists were joined by Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Lawyers Poppy Alexander, Eric Havian, and Michael Ronickher in developing a proposal to enact legislation that would create statutory incentives and protections for whistleblowers with information about money laundering. The proposal, unveiled on May 25, 2020, was developed in response to a...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, COVID-19, Importance of Whistleblowers, Money Laundering, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Canadian Accountability Experts Propose Comprehensive “Hack” Promoting Increased Transparency and Support for Whistleblowers

Posted 05/29/20

canadian flag with sky in the background

A group of prominent accountability experts have come up with a comprehensive proposal designed to increase transparency and whistleblower protections in Canada. The Canadian COVID-19 Accountability Group (CCAG), comprised of former whistleblowers and other experts from academia, law, policing and journalism, was created in response to Constantine Cannon’s FT Innovative Lawyers Global Legal Hackathon challenge. The...

Tagged in: COVID-19, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

A Different Way to Protect Congressional Whistleblowers

Posted 02/20/20

Government whistleblowers have taken a beating these last few weeks, in particular at the hands of both President Trump and Senator Rand Paul in the course of the impeachment trial. But whistleblowers may have some potent ways to fight back. First, throughout the short duration of the impeachment trial, Senator Rand Paul used his soapbox both in and out of Senate chambers to loudly proclaim the alleged name of...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Retaliation, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Catch of the Week: Teva, A Pharmaceutical Company, Pays $54M to Settle Kickback Allegations

Posted 01/9/20

pill container spilled over with pills in the form of a dollar sign

A recent settlement between the Department of Justice and Teva, a pharmaceutical company, show how creative, and how hard to identify, kickbacks allegedly paid to physicians can be. The company has agreed to pay $54M to resolve claims when it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to doctors to boost sales of two of their drugs. Broadly speaking, the Anti-Kickback statute prohibits healthcare providers,...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Catch of the Week, FCA Federal, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Following Whistleblower Testimony, FAA Administrator Vows to Investigate Boeing

Posted 12/11/19

Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington

Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager turned whistleblower, testified before Congress on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, that the Boeing plant where the company's 737 Max was produced was a "factory in chaos," with production issues that may have played a role in two crashes that killed a total of 346 people. Pierson, who worked for Boeing from 2008 until his retirement in 2018, is represented by the whistleblower...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Importance of Whistleblowers, Reporting to Government, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

EU, UK, and Canadian Whistleblowers Receive New or Enhanced Protections

Posted 12/5/19

Three recent international developments have occurred that will further enable and encourage whistleblowers to report alleged wrongdoing, and provide guidance for employers and organizations to respond to such complaints. The European Union formally adopted a whistleblower protection directive on September 25, 2019, requiring organizations with 50 or more workers to establish internal reporting channels over the...

Tagged in: Government Programs Fraud, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

In Second-Ever Enforcement Action of Its Kind, SEC Stands with Whistleblower Against Company’s Attempt to Muzzle Reporting

Posted 11/8/19

Imagine that, after you invest in a company, you start to smell a rat. After you try to alert other investors or report what you believe is a fraudulent scheme, the company you invested in draws up an agreement that conditions your shareholding on a prohibition on speaking with regulatory agencies. If it seems illegal, that’s because it is. Yet that’s exactly what online auction and memorabilia company Collectors...

Tagged in: Confidentiality and The Seal, Financial and Investment Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

“Whistleblowers don’t come forward because it polls well; they come forward because, having done their own moral calculus, they simply don’t have a choice.”

Posted 11/6/19

Headshots of Attorney Hallie Noecker and Leah Judge

Constantine Cannon whistleblower attorneys Leah Judge and Hallie Noecker discuss why President Trump's attempt to intimidate whistleblowers is failing--and will continue to fail – in Law360 (paywall). Judge and Noecker posit that whistleblowers are cut from a different cloth. They value fairness over loyalty, and their consciences drive them to speak truth to power, even when doing so carries great personal...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

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CFTC Whistleblower Hot Streak Continues with $9 Million Award

A Win-Win Solution: Italy Proposes a Legislative Hack for COVID-Related Whistleblowers

Project Proposes Legislative Action to Protect and Incentivize AML Whistleblowers

Canadian Accountability Experts Propose Comprehensive “Hack” Promoting Increased Transparency and Support for Whistleblowers

A Different Way to Protect Congressional Whistleblowers

Catch of the Week: Teva, A Pharmaceutical Company, Pays $54M to Settle Kickback Allegations

Following Whistleblower Testimony, FAA Administrator Vows to Investigate Boeing

EU, UK, and Canadian Whistleblowers Receive New or Enhanced Protections

In Second-Ever Enforcement Action of Its Kind, SEC Stands with Whistleblower Against Company’s Attempt to Muzzle Reporting

“Whistleblowers don’t come forward because it polls well; they come forward because, having done their own moral calculus, they simply don’t have a choice.”

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