Grassley, Leahy press Justice Department on 'Whistleblower' Protections
Posted 09/22/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Patrick Leahy on Wednesday pressed the Justice Department on its progress implementing whistleblower protections at the FBI. In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Grassley and Leahy outline a series of concerns about whistleblower protections that have gone unaddressed despite government reports drawing...
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The US Department of Energy—responsible for, among things, the nation’s nuclear security—has frozen an Obama administration regulation that would have permitted civil penalties against federal nuclear contractors that retaliated against whistleblowers for reporting waste, fraud, and dangerous conditions. The original rule was to have taken effect on January 26, 2017. For...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The SEC announced that Seattle-based financial services company HomeStreet Inc. has agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges that it conducted improper hedge accounting and later took steps to prevent potential whistleblowers in violation of SEC Rule 21F-17, which prohibits taking actions to impede communication with the SEC.
According to the SEC’s order,...
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The whistleblower retaliation provisions of the False Claims Act offer broad relief to "employees" who are terminated, suspended, harassed or otherwise discriminated against by their employers for engaging in protected whistleblowing activity. Congress amended the statute in 2009 to expand these provisions beyond employees to also reach "contractors" and "agents" of a...