New South Korean Anti-Corruption Law Spawns the $25.99 Dinner
Posted 09/30/16
By Max Voldman
A new South Korean anti-corruption law went into effect this week. The Improper Solicitation and Graft Act will limit the ability of about four million public servants, journalists and teachers to receive gifts. The implementation of this law follows four years of Parliamentary debate and several suits challenging it in the courts. Specifically, the law provides that certain government-employed...
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Casino-gaming company IGT to pay fine for retaliating against whistleblower -- International Game Technology has agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty for firing an employee for telling the SEC that the casino-gaming company's financial statements might be distorted. The SEC said the employee was removed from significant work assignments within weeks of raising concerns about the...
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US hedge fund will pay over $400M to settle foreign bribery allegations—Och-Ziff Capital Management will pay more than $400M to settle charges it paid tens of millions to African Governmental officials and one unit will plead guilty to criminal charges. Och-Ziff is the largest publicly traded hedge fund in the US and this will be the first criminal foreign-bribery case against...
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) intervention last week in a whistleblower-initiated False Claims Act case is going to make for an awkward holiday season for at least one family. The case, US ex rel. Xing Wei v. Yingshun Garments, Inc. et al, was filed in January 2013 in the Southern District of New York and alleges a scheme to avoid import duties on women’s clothing manufactured in China and sold to retailers in...
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CDC Whistleblower Claims Agency has been Using Wrong Zika Test – Robert Lanciotti, one of the leading experts on Zika virus claims that the CDC is using a less effective test for Zika infections. Lanciotti raised concerns in May when the CDC was mulling changing the test and was demoted after raising his concerns. Lanciotti claims the alternate test misses nearly forty percent...
By Ronny Valdes
On September 22, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) released a 
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The world needs whistleblowers -- "The United Nations should embrace whistleblowing in order to prevent more systemic failures."