In Their Own Words -- Dreyfus
Posted 07/23/15
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The UK's 2010 Bribery Act -- More Businesses Need To Take Note
Posted 07/23/15
By Richard Pike and Natalia Mikolajczyk
At the beginning of this month the UK Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills released a survey on how many UK small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) know about the UK’s Bribery Act 2010. It turns out that two-thirds of the SMEs surveyed either had heard of or were aware of the corporate liability for failure to prevent bribery. Of those...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 23, 2015
Posted 07/23/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The Balkans' new zeal for protecting whistleblowers -- "Balkan countries vying to join the EU have passed, or are in the middle of passing, better whistleblower protection laws than most EU member states have." DW
Pentagon and CIA ordered re-investigate whistleblower retaliation cases -- "The action by the intelligence community inspector general is the first public...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 22, 2015
Posted 07/22/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Toshiba CEO resigns over cooked books – Toshiba’s President and Vice Chairman resign after an independent panel finds the firm overstated its profits by $1.22 billion. BBC
Dad, daughter, and husband indicted in “factoring” fraud – DOJ indicts three family members for “factoring” fraud against Miami-area lenders and the U.S. Export-Import bank. Read MoreIn Their Own Words — Memeger
Posted 07/22/15
-- “This civil complaint reflects our focus on pursuing individuals who defraud Medicaid and Medicare, especially after they have previously defrauded those programs and been barred from participating in them.”
U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger commenting on his office’s pursuit of charges against Melchor Martinez, who allegedly owned and operated institutional mental health clinics that billed Medicare and...In Their Own Words -- Schneiderman
Posted 07/21/15
-- “NOTHING IS MORE SHAMEFUL THAN POCKETING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DONATED BY GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE WHO JUST WANTED TO HELP CHILDREN AFFLICTED WITH A TERMINAL ILLNESS. ”
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman commenting on NYAG charges against Brooklyn children’s leukemia charity. Click here for more.Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 21, 2015
Posted 07/21/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
NYAG accuses Brooklyn children’s cancer charity of fraud – Donors have given millions of dollars to the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation, perhaps motivated by brochures or telemarketing pitches describing the charity’s bone marrow registry or its cancer research building – but the NYAG says neither of those things even existed. NYT
Clinton vows to protect...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 20, 2015
Posted 07/20/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Construction management company Louis Berger International admits bribing foreign officials to secure government contracts in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Company agrees to pay $17.1 million in criminal penalties; two former executives based also plead guilty to conspiracy and FCPA charges. DOJ.
A social...
In Their Own Words -- Pisciotta
Posted 07/20/15
-- “I KNEW THAT IT WAS MORALLY WRONG. THEY WANTED US TO PREPARE STATEMENTS AND NOT SAY ANYTHING. I TOLD THEM I JUST COULDN’T GO ALONG WITH IT.”
Former prison guard John Pisciotta on efforts to cover up a violent extraction of inmate from cell. Click here for more.In Their Own Words -- McKessy
Posted 07/17/15