Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 13, 2016
Posted 09/13/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
How the sugar industry shifted the blame to fat -- "The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show." NYT
Wall Street whistleblowers reap millions -- The SEC has paid out more than $100 million in awards since the Dodd-Frank...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Given the general frustration over the 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Monsanto Whistle-Blower: $22 Million Richer, but Not Satisfied — The Monsanto whistleblower who recovered $22 million after bringing to light multiyear accounting violations feels he has earned only a hollow victory. The whistleblower, who remains anonymous to protect his future career prospects, feels that his goal of getting the issues at Monsanto fixed was not met and...
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By Jason Enzler
Last week the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed extensive amendments to the regulations implementing its five-year old whistleblower program. If adopted, the changes would expand and clarify its whistleblower protections, the scope of who can enforce whistleblower protections, the bases for how awards to whistleblowers will be calculated, and the process by which...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to medical equipment supply companies U.S. Healthcare Supply LLC and Oxford Diabetic Supply Inc. On Wednesday, the two companies, along with their owners and presidents, agreed to pay more than $12.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Wells Fargo will pay $190 million to settle customer fraud case – Wells Fargo will pay $185 million in penalties and $5 million to customers that regulators say were pushed into costly financial products that they did not need or even request. Regulators also say that Wells Fargo employees opened more than 2 million deposit and credit card accounts that may not have been...