In Their Own Words — Win
Posted 12/15/15
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — December 15, 2015
Posted 12/15/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
U.S. shrimp market tainted with slavery and child labor – According to an investigation by the Associate Press, shrimp in the U.S. can be traced back to forced labor and child slaves in Thailand who peel and gut the seafood. U.S. News & World Report
Is Bowe Bergdahl a whistleblower? – The Army Sergeant faces a court martial and possibly life in prison on charges of...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — December 14, 2015
Posted 12/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
CT State Government Whistleblower Given Opportunity to Amend Complaint -- Virginia Brown, a former staff attorney in the Comptroller's office, claims that Connecticut's government pension system is rife with political favoritism and heavy influence by state employee unions. Hartford Courant
Ohio Hospital Settles Whistleblower Suit -- Two former employees, Laura Lovett and...
In Their Own Words — Dodd-Frank
Posted 12/11/15
-- “WHISTLEBLOWERS OFTEN FACE THE DIFFICULT CHOICE BETWEEN TELLING THE TRUTH AND THE RISK OF COMMITTING CAREER SUICIDE.”
Senate report on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act, which bars retaliation against whistle-blowers. Click here for more.DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Tishman Construction Corp.
Posted 12/11/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Tishman Construction Corporation. Yesterday, the construction company, one of the largest in New York City, agreed to pay more than $20 million to settle charges of overbilling customers over a ten-year period. In announcing the settlement, U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Robert L. Capers said...
European Parliament Resolution Provides Hope For The Possibility Of Financial Rewards For European Whistleblowers
Posted 12/11/15
By Richard Pike and Yulia Tosheva
On 25 November 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on tax rulings which calls on the European Commission to propose, by June 2016, an EU legislative framework for the effective protection of whistleblowers.
The European Parliament:
Stresses that it is not acceptable that citizens and journalists can be subject to prosecution rather than legal protection when...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — December 11, 2015
Posted 12/11/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Accutest Laboratories settles whistleblower case -- New-Jersey-based Accutest Laboratories will pay $2 million to resolve allegations that it deviated from both federal and state requirements for safe and environmentally-friendly extraction and testing of certain compounds, thereby submitting false claims to the State and its agencies for payment. NJ Attorney...
December 10, 2015
New Jersey announced that Accutest Laboratories would pay the State $2 million to resolve allegations that it deviated from both federal and state requirements for the extraction and testing of certain compounds, thereby submitting false claims to the State and its agencies for payment. The State and its agencies – including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) – had contracted with Accutest to perform a variety of environmental tests in its extraction laboratory. The allegations central to today’s settlement flow from a federal qui tam or “whistleblower” lawsuit filed two years prior by a former Accutest employee, Koroush Vaziri. The New Jersey Attorney General said that the settlement was the largest non-Medicaid-related False Claims Act settlement entered into by the State since New Jersey’s False Claims Act took effect in March 2008. NJDecember 10, 2015
Thomas Gillons, of Napa County, California, was ordered to pay a $1 million civil penalty and $994,068 in restitution on charges of fraud and misappropriation. CFTCEven the Mysterious Must Face the Taxman: Australian Authorities Raid Home of Suspected Founder of Bitcoin
Posted 12/10/15
By Tim McCormack
On December 9, police in Australia raided the home of a man suspected of being the elusive and previously anonymous creator of digital currency Bitcoin. Launched in 2009 by an anonymous programmer known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin has since grown exponentially. Indeed, “[a]s it’s been adopted for everything from international money transfers to online narcotrafficking, the...