Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 26, 2017
Posted 12/26/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Why whistleblowers are the answer to global wildlife trafficking -- "If the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service replicated the SEC whistleblower program for wildlife crime whistleblowers, it would be a game-changer in the fight against the global wildlife trafficking trade." Care2
Whistleblowers attack UK Asylum Office -- "Staff in the Home Office’s asylum directorate are...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The Justice Department 
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Prosecutors File Charges in Alleged $250 Million Crypto Mining Fraud -- Authorities in South Korea have reportedly filed suit against a U.S. cryptocurrency mining firm, alleging a multi-million dollar fraud. According to Korean news source Yonhap, prosecutors from the Incheon district of South Korea alleged in a press briefing that a company called Mining Max LLC solicited 270...
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features the many women who came forward to face down years of sexual harassment—and worse—from producer Harvey Weinstein, helping to spark a long overdue national conversation.
Weinstein’s alleged abuses spanned decades, with reports of misconduct from as far back as 1980. The few women brave enough to report his behavior were silenced either by Weinstein’s...
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features the Paradise Papers leaker(s), an unnamed whistleblower (or whistleblowers) responsible for shining a light on the widespread use of illicit offshore tax havens. The November 2017 exposé revealed where government officials, royalty, entertainers, and powerful corporations store their cash to avoid taxes. The details are in 13.4 million documents, such as emails and...
his "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Joel Clement, a scientist and former director of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy Analysis, who was reassigned last summer to an Interior Department accounting office after blowing the whistle on climate change. Clement believes he was retaliated against for speaking about the dangers climate change poses to Alaskan Native...
United Therapeutics (UT), a Maryland-based pharmaceutical company which produces and distributes drugs for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension, has 
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Army contractor settles FCA suit for over $1M — United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has settled allegations that one of its subsidiaries, Goodrich Pump and Engine Control Systems, used counterfeit microprocessors in component parts that eventually went into US Army Helicopters.