Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 20, 2013
Posted 09/20/13
Study says up to 440,000 U.S. deaths per year are from hospital mistakes – The Journal of Patient Safety findings make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America behind heart disease and cancer. ProPublica
Halliburton guilty of destroying evidence in Gulf spill fiasco – The company pleads guilty to charges that it destroyed evidence to cover up its potential liability for the Deepwater Horizon...
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Art dealer pleads guilty over selling fakes – Glafira Rosales admits to a 15-year, $80 million forgery scheme of passing off as genuine works from such Modernist masters as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko actual fakes painted by a Chinese immigrant in his Queens garage.
Female politicians less corrupt – According to a study out of Rice University, female politicians in democratic countries are less likely than their male counterparts to participate in and tolerate corrupt practices. 
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Government’s graphic anti-smoking campaign shows strong results – The CDC reports that the $54 million TIPS ad series funded by the Affordable Care Act caused 200,000 Americans to quit smoking and saved 300,000 years of life, one of the most cost-effective prevention efforts ever. 
USDA ends ban of processed chicken imports from China – These products, whether used in chicken noodle soup or chicken nuggets, can now be sold in the U.S. without any disclosure that they come out of China. 
Head of NYC’s top high school mishandles cheating scandal – A new report finds that Stanley Teitel, principal of the elite Stuyvesant High School, failed to properly investigate and thwart a cheating operation involving 60 students using smart phones to obtain answers to standardized tests. 
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