In Their Own Words - Medical Director for England’s National Health Service
Posted 11/12/14
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 12, 2014
Posted 11/12/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Regulators hit five banks with $3.4 billion penalty – The fines, levied against UBS, HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JP Morgan, are for manipulation of the foreign exchange market. Reuters
22,000 dental patients in U.K. health scare -- The patients have been urged to check for HIV and hepatitis infections after a whistleblower raised alarms that a dentist was...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 11, 2014
Posted 11/11/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Lawsuit accuses major banks of role in financing terror attacks in Iraq -- Dozens of veterans and family members of soldiers killed in Iraq are claiming HSBC, Barclays, Standard Chartered, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Suisse helped finance terror attacks in Iraq through the banks’ financial dealings with Iran. NYT
New whistleblower claims fraud at Census Bureau --...
In Their Own Words - Irizarry
Posted 11/11/14
-- “If you think something is wrong or illegal, you need to tell someone. And if they don't listen you tell someone else. And if nobody is listening you stand in the town square and you tell everyone.”
From interview of whistleblower Ivan Irizarry, the senior Census Bureau employee, who recently outed himself after his reported retaliation for exposing potential fraud at the agency.Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 7, 2014
Posted 11/7/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblowers say airbag manufacturer hid risk of failure – Two former employees say Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata secretly conducted tests on its airbags and found that the steel inflaters cracked, which can lead to rupture, but Takata executives ordered the technicians to delete the testing data from their computers and to throw away the evidence. NYT
Home health...
DOJ Catch of the Week – Hyundai and Kia
Posted 11/7/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to South Korea's top two automakers Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation. On Monday, the two companies agreed to pay a $100 million civil penalty to settle charges they violated the Clean Air Act by selling more than one million vehicles that will emit roughly 4.75 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in...
Protecting Public Health Service Whistleblowers -- Another Lesson from the Ebola Scare
Posted 11/6/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
There have been many invaluable take-aways from the Ebola horror that has struck so much pain and fear around the globe. But one little talked about lesson is the need to better protect those scientists on the front lines of trying to contain this deadly scourge, and who unfortunately may be battling similar outbreaks in the future. We are talking about the members of the Public...
Bio-Rad Pays Big for International Bribery Scheme
Posted 11/6/14
By Marlene Koury
Medical diagnostics and life sciences manufacturing and sales company Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has agreed to pay $55 million to settle related SEC and DOJ charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"). In the SEC matter, California-based Bio-Rad agreed to pay $40.7 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest to resolve allegations that the company made improper payments...
California Court Follows More Expansive Take on Who Can Be an SEC Whistleblower
Posted 11/6/14
By Jason Enzler
A California federal district court ruled last week that a whistleblower is not required to report allegations of violations of the U.S. securities laws to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in order to qualify for protection under the Dodd-Frank Act. In the case of Connolly v. Wolfgang Remkes, Case No. 5:14-CV-01344 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 28, 2014), the court made that decision -- and...