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In Their Own Words -- Bucci

— "Whistleblowers are not the most beloved people by their leaders.  Unfortunately, the system that protects them is really imperfect.  Rather than get the corrective action, instead you end up seeing organizations expend more effort to screw with the person who raised the issue." 

Steven Bucci, an analyst on homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, on the "unprecedented rise" of whistleblower retaliation...

In Their Own Words — Grassley

— “It appears that the Pentagon inspector general’s office doesn’t seem to care about following the requirements in the law on whistleblowers or care about the treatment of whistleblowers, period.”

Sen. Charles Grassley commenting on GAO military whistleblower report.  Read the GAO report here.

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 8, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Military whistleblowers have long wait for justice -- The Government Accountability Office said in a report that investigations into complaints from military whistleblowers that they’d been retaliated against for denouncing wrongdoing take on average more than 500 days – almost three times longer than the legal requirement of completion in 180 days.  Sacramento Bee UN...

DOJ Catch of the Week -- Health Management Associates

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Health Management Associates Inc.  Yesterday, the hospital chain and 14 hospitals it previously owned and operated, along with 2 other hospitals, agreed to collectively pay $15.69 million to settle whistleblower charges they violated the False Claims Act by seeking and receiving Medicare reimbursement for Intensive...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 7, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team DeflateGate report says "more probable than not" that Tom Brady cheated -- "In a major blow to Tom Brady’s golden reputation, a National Football League investigator concluded Wednesday that the Patriots quarterback most likely participated, at least tacitly, in violating the sport’s integrity by using improperly deflated footballs as he guided the team toward a Super Bowl...

In Their Own Words — Greenblatt

— "New York doesn’t so much have a culture of corruption as an entire festival."

Alan Greenblatt in his Politico piece on "how the Empire State created such a toxic (and criminal) political culture."  Click here for more.

Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 6, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Judge orders UN to lift suspension of whistleblower who leaked sexual abuse report -- Anders Kompass, the director of field operations for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, disclosed to French prosecutors an internal UN report on the alleged sexual abuse of children by French troops in Central African Republic.  Guardian Los Angeles sues Wells Fargo over...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 5, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team New York Senate leader and son arrested on corruption charges -- The 43-page complaint accuses Republican Senator Dean Skelos of taking official actions to benefit a small Arizona environmental company, AbTech Industries, and a large New York developer, Glenwood Management, as long as the companies paid his son.  NYT DaVita to pay $495M to settle Atlanta whistleblower case --...

Monthly Roundup – April 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team  Here is our look-back at the key whistleblower and fraud developments we have written about over the past month: FEATURED POSTS AND COMMENTARY This month's featured posts and commentary included: SEC Announces First Award to Whistleblower in Retaliation Case (here); Whistleblower Spotlight -- Halliburton Whistleblower Tony Menendez (here); SEC Awards Compliance Officer...

In Their Own Words – Dormino

--  “THEY HAVE LOST THEIR FREEDOM FOR THE TRUTH, SO THEY REMIND US HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO KNOW THE TRUTH."

Italian sculptor Davide Dormino in connection with his piece titled "Anything to Say?" which he placed in Berlin's Alexanderplatz and contains life-sized statues of the three whistleblowers -- former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former US soldier Chelsea Manning convicted...