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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.

Snowden Documentary Citizenfour is a Must See

Posted  10/16/14
By Marlene Koury Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour is not a documentary about Edward Snowden. It is a gripping film about strategy, surveillance, and high-stakes whistleblowing. The film documents Ms. Poitras and fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald's meeting with "Citizenfour" – the handle Snowden used in his first anonymous emails to her – over an eight-day period in Hong Kong to plot how to expose his proof that...

Big Week for Whistleblowers -- Three Major False Claims Act Victories

Posted  10/16/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team In what has shaped up to be one of the more prolific weeks for whistleblowers, the government has settled three major False Claims Act cases originated by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the statute. They involved nursing home operator Extendicare Health Services Inc., aerospace and defense industry giant Boeing Company, and drug maker Organon. All together, the...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 15, 2014

Posted  10/15/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower says Archbishop must step down -- Jennifer Haselberger, former top legal adviser to Archbishop John Nienstedt, and the whistleblower in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis abuse scandal, says the Archbishop should go as should all the top leadership of the Twin Cities archdiocese.  CBS The encryption tools that made Snowden documentary possible  –...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 14, 2014

Posted  10/14/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team A Portrait of the Whistleblower as a Young Man -- New documentary provides "unparalleled look at the historic moment when Ed Snowden told the world that Big Brother is watching."  Atlantic Office of Special Counsel comes to rescue of Army whistleblower -- The OSC, which protects federal whistleblowers, persuades the Merit Systems Protection Board to halt the Army's planned...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 10, 2014

Posted  10/10/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team First SCOTUS whistleblower case could have broad reach -- The Supreme Court will soon have a chance to decide if Robert MacLean, a whistleblower and former air marshal, was treated justly, or at least legally, after he blew the whistle on airline safety, in the first case the high court will hear directly concerning a federal whistleblower.  Washington Post Whistleblower suit...

DOJ Catch of the Week -- DRS Technical Services

Posted  10/10/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to DRS Technical Services Inc. Last Tuesday, the Virginia based telecommunications services provider agreed to pay $13.7 million to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the government for work performed by DRS personnel who lacked the job qualifications required by the company's government...

Life After Whistleblowing for High-Tech Whistleblowers

Posted  10/9/14
By Marlene Koury Can high-tech whistleblowers have a career after blowing the whistle? Yes, according to a new article in Computerworld magazine, but with some caveats. High-tech whistleblowers are increasingly in the spotlight, with Snowden, Manning and others making headlines for exposing serious concerns relating to privacy, data collection and security. But it's not just data protection and privacy issues that...

Whistleblower Spotlight -- New York Fed Whistleblower Carmen Segarra

Posted  10/9/14
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="289"] Source: ProPublica[/caption] By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" falls on former New York Federal Reserve Bank examiner Carmen Segarra. She is the individual the New York Fed fired in 2012 for refusing to back off her charges that Goldman Sachs was engaging in serious conflicts of interest. She also is the whistleblower who has...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 8, 2014

Posted  10/8/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Twitter sues US government over national security requests -- The world’s largest microblogging platform claims the Justice Department’s restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government’s requests for user data violate the First Amendment.  Reuters What motivates a whistleblower? -- "It's less about the psychology of the individual and more about the...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 7, 2014

Posted  10/7/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team US poised for another round of legal attacks against leading banks -- The new charges concern alleged collusion "to alter the price of foreign currencies, the largest and least regulated financial market."  NYT Columbia/HCA whistleblower attacks Florida Governor Rick Scott -- Scott was a founder of the hospital chain which paid $1.7B to settle healthcare fraud charges and...
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