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In Their Own Words -- Grassley

--“Violators of antitrust laws put businesses and our economic wellbeing at risk, so whistleblowers who call attention to violators should be praised, not punished.”

Senator Charles Grassley commenting on the Senate's unanimous passage of the Criminal Antitrust Anti-retaliation Act. Click here for more.

Can Data Bring Reason to Drug Pricing?

As far as purveyors of all things pharmaceutical go, Walter White isn’t looking so bad these days.  Well, at least his prices were competitive.  With major pharmaceutical companies putting astronomical and ever-increasing price tags on frequently life-saving medications, patients and insurers, including state and federal government payers, are finding themselves looking for new options and opportunities to...

SEC Pays Whistleblower Award of More than $3 Million

On July 17^th, the SEC announced its 18^th whistleblower award since the program’s inception – this one for over $3 million, the third highest to date.  This puts the award total at over $50 million. Due to the agency’s commitment to whistleblower confidentiality, the SEC’s press release was slim on details of the fraud or the whistleblower.  However, the SEC took the award as an opportunity to praise...

Court Slaps Down DOJ For Skimping On Whistleblower Award

By Gordon Schnell It is a rare occasion where the Department of Justice gets judicially censured for shortchanging a whistleblower under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.  But that is exactly what District Court Judge Robert F. Kelly (Eastern District Pennsylvania) did last week in United Sates ex rel. Ryan v. Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  There, Judge Kelly came down hard on the government for...

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 24, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team DOJ starts criminal probe into Sikorsky Navy contract -- Sikorsky parent company United Technologies announces DOJ is seeking $148M in claims relating to allegations the helicopter maker overbilled the US Navy.  Reuters Toshiba case points to shortcomings in Japan's whistleblower law’s -- "One of the more intriguing questions stemming from the Toshiba accounting scandal is...

In Their Own Words -- Dreyfus

-- "COUNTRIES LIKE BOSNIA, LONG THOUGHT OF AS MORE ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD, ARE NOW MOVING FORWARD MORE SERIOUSLY ON WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION THAN WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.  IF WESTERN EUROPE DOESN'T LIFT ITS GAME, IT WILL END UP BEING LEFT BEHIND IN THE DUST."

Suelette Dreyfus, Executive Director of international NGO Blueprint for Free Speech at a conference in downtown Sarajevo with legislators, government...

The UK's 2010 Bribery Act -- More Businesses Need To Take Note

By Richard Pike and Natalia Mikolajczyk At the beginning of this month the UK Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills released a survey on how many UK small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) know about the UK’s Bribery Act 2010.  It turns out that two-thirds of the SMEs surveyed either had heard of or were aware of the corporate liability for failure to prevent bribery. Of those...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 23, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team  The Balkans' new zeal for protecting whistleblowers -- "Balkan countries vying to join the EU have passed, or are in the middle of passing, better whistleblower protection laws than most EU member states have."  DW  Pentagon and CIA ordered re-investigate whistleblower retaliation cases -- "The action by the intelligence community inspector general is the first public...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 22, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Toshiba CEO resigns over cooked books – Toshiba’s President and Vice Chairman resign after an independent panel finds the firm overstated its profits by $1.22 billion.  BBC Dad, daughter, and husband indicted in “factoring” fraud  – DOJ indicts three family members for “factoring” fraud against Miami-area lenders and the U.S. Export-Import bank.  Read More