In Their Own Words — Devine
Posted 08/4/15
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 4, 2015
Posted 08/4/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Idaho anti-whistleblower Ag-Gag law declared unconstitutional -- According to the Court, “[p]rohibiting undercover investigators or whistleblowers from recording an agricultural facility’s operations inevitably suppresses a key type of speech because it limits the information that might later be published or broadcast.” NYT
Pediatric Services of America to pay $6.88M...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 3, 2015
Posted 08/3/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Tom Hayes Convicted of Libor Rigging -- In a major victory for the U.K.'s Serious Frauds Office, a London jury convicted Tom Hayes, a former trader at UBS AG and Citigroup Inc., with fraudulently trying to rig the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, the first criminal conviction of an individual for manipulating the widely used benchmark. Mr. Hayes, a 35-year-old...
DOJ Catch Of The Week -- NuVasive Inc.
Posted 07/31/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to California-based medical device manufacturer NuVasive Inc. Yesterday, the company agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve charges it improperly promoted the company’s CoRoent System for spine surgeries for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The settlement also resolves allegations NuVasive...
Five More Whistleblower Lawyers Join Constantine Cannon
Posted 07/31/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Five additional whistleblower lawyers have joined Constantine Cannon's growing whistleblower practice, making it one of the largest and most experienced in the country. The new additions are Mary Inman, Jessica Moore and Ari Yampolsky in the firm's San Francisco office, and Tim McCormack and Molly Knobler in the firm's Washington, DC office. Christine Zengel and Janice LeBon...
In Their Own Words — Drake
Posted 07/31/15
-- "The national security space is an extraordinary blanket, exempted to make it incredibly dangerous to speak truth to power, to reveal wrongdoing without suffering huge consequences…I'm the exceptional price you pay."
Thomas Drake speaking to a crowd on National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. Click here for more.Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 31, 2015
Posted 07/31/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Thomas Drake speaks frankly about blowing the whistle – Former NSA executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake takes time off from his job at the Apple store to speak to a crowd on National Whistleblower Appreciation Day about his experiences blowing the whistle and his inability to find employment in his field after doing so. Newsmax
Kaplan and Lincoln Technical Institute...
In Their Own Words -- Jackson
Posted 07/30/15
-- “Is it the weather? Is it because it’s beautiful and the fraudsters want to live here? Is it because it’s such a melting pot and you have organized crime from all ethnic groups? Any fraud, it always seems to start here.”
Kelly Jackson, the IRS’s top criminal investigator in South Florida, speculating about why South Florida is the organized fraud capital of America.Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 30, 2015
Posted 07/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
It’s National Whistleblower Day! -- On this day in 1778, the Continental Congress enacted the first whistleblower law. Just days ago, the Senate passed a resolution urging federal agencies to celebrate whistleblowers. And today, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden—who head the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus—along with Senators Ron Johnson, Tammy Baldwin, Thom...
SEC Enforcement Spotlight – Mead Johnson Nutrition
Posted 07/30/15
Mead Johnson Nutrition Company agreed to pay $12 million to settle SEC findings that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (“FCPA”). An SEC investigation found that employees of Mead Johnson’s Chinese subsidiary made improper payments to healthcare professionals at government-owned hospitals to induce them to recommend Mead Johnson’s infant formula to new or expectant mothers. See SEC Press...