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Whistleblower Insider is written by the Constantine Cannon law firm team of experienced qui tam and whistleblower lawyers. It is updated regularly to provide the latest whistleblower and fraud news and developments.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 1, 2015

				
Posted  05/1/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Vermont False Claims Act to become law -- The House voted yes to a Senate version of Vermont’s False Claims Act which mirrors the federal FCA and offers whistleblowers rewards for blowing the whistle on fraud.   VT Digger

Express Scripts unit to pay $45 million over Novartis kickback scheme -- A unit of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co will pay $45 million...				 
				 				
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SEC Chair Gives Big Shout Out for Whistleblowers

				
Posted  05/1/15
								

				 
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By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Yesterday, SEC Chair Mary Jo White spoke at Northwestern University Law School on the invaluable role of the corporate whistleblower and the still burgeoning SEC whistleblower program that she describes as a "game changer" for government enforcement.  Here is her summary of the program's many...				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- McKessy

				
Posted  04/30/15
								

				 
								 				
-- The SEC will protect whistleblowers “against retaliatory conduct and make significant financial awards to whistleblowers who suffer employment hardships as a result of reporting possible securities law violations.”

Sean McKessy, Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, in a statement regarding the SEC’s first award to a whistleblower for retaliation.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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SEC Announces First Award to Whistleblower in Retaliation Case

				
Posted  04/30/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

The SEC awarded $600,000 to a whistleblower who suffered "unique hardships, including retaliation" as a result of blowing the whistle on misconduct at hedge fund advisory firm Paradigm Capital Management.  The award is the maximum the SEC pays to whistleblowers – 30 percent of the amount the SEC recovers – and represents the first time the SEC has made an award to a...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Halliburton Whistleblower Tony Menendez

				
Posted  04/30/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Tony Menendez, the former accounting executive at Halliburton who the company publicly "outed" after he complained to the SEC about what he saw as the company's multi-billion dollar accounting transgressions.  An in-depth profile of Menendez published last week by ProPublica and Marketplace provides tremendous insight into what...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — April 30, 2015

				
Posted  04/30/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

 Wall Street pushes back on foreign bribery probe -- "Wall Street banks are embroiled in an intense dispute with the US government over its 'aggressive' interpretation of foreign-bribery laws . . . with broad implications for how corporations do business overseas."  WSJ

 Interview with UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld post prison -- He explains "how he's spent some of his...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — April 29, 2015

				
Posted  04/29/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

SEC doles out first whistleblower award in retaliation case – The SEC said it paid the first-ever reward to a former hedge fund trader who faced retaliation for reporting his concerns about conflicts of interest.  The SEC said that the whistleblower, who worked for the hedge fund Paradigm Capital Management, suffered "unique hardships, including retaliation, as a result of...				 
				 				
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In Their Own Words -- Warren

				
Posted  04/29/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "INCREASED TRANSPARENCY [OF SETTLEMENTS] WILL SHUT DOWN BACKROOM DEAL-MAKING AND ENSURE THAT CONGRESS, CITIZENS AND WATCHDOG GROUPS CAN HOLD REGULATORY AGENCIES ACCOUNTABLE FOR STRONG AND EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT THAT BENEFITS THE PUBLIC INTEREST."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussing the Truth in Settlements Act.  Click here for more.

 				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Drake

				
Posted  04/28/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "Whistleblowers are the canaries in the constitutional coal mine, speaking truth to power."

Former NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, speaking on a recent panel with other government whistleblowers on the Obama administration's aggressive prosecution of national intelligence whistleblowers and how our government has become "an alien form I don’t recognize."  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — April 28, 2015

				
Posted  04/28/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

All-Star listing of government whistleblowers blast Obama prosecutions -- "The landscape for whistleblowing 'changed drastically' on April 23 when Gen. David Patraeus received two years’ probation and a $100,000 fine for divulging classified information, according to a panel of some of government’s most famous disclosers of secrets."  GovExec

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