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In Their Own Words . . . .

					
Our daily pick of the most meaningful, inspiring, or instructive quotes straight from those on the front line — fighting, exposing, or reporting on fraud and injustice, wherever it may lie.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
In Their Own Words – Birkenfeld

				
Posted  05/1/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "I'm a hammer looking for nails…a chainsaw looking for trees. The worst person they could ever piss off? Me. Because I'm relentless and I'm resourceful and I will get the job done."  

Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS whistleblower, who says the U.S. government is still enabling the wealthy and powerful Americans who hid their fortunes in Switzerland.”  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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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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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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In Their Own Words – Lynch

				
Posted  04/27/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "WE ARE ALL JUST HERE FOR A TIME . . . .  BUT THE VALUES WE HOLD DEAR WILL LIVE ON LONG AFTER WE HAVE LEFT THIS STAGE.  OUR RESPONSIBILITY, WHILE WE ARE HERE, IS TO BREATHE LIFE INTO THEM; TO IMBUE THEM WITH THE STRENGTH OF OUR CONVICTIONS AND THE WEIGHT OF OUR EFFORTS."

Loretta E. Lynch, at her swearing in as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words – Radack

				
Posted  04/24/15
								

				 
								 				
-- The U.S. “clearly has a two-tiered justice system when it comes to classified information…if you’re a person in a position of power or you’re politically well connected, you can leak with impunity."  

Jesselyn Radack, a Government Accountability Project lawyer who has represented several people prosecuted during the administration's crackdown on leaks by low-level officials. Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Sparrow

				
Posted  04/23/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "It shows the incentives provided for whistleblowers are working well, and all the other controls and detection systems are failing miserably."

Malcolm Sparrow, a health care fraud expert at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the increasing number of whistleblower actions challenging fraud in the Medicare Advantage healthcare program.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Marchese

				
Posted  04/22/15
								

				 
								 				
-- “I’m trained as an attorney, I’m Sicilian, and I’m from New Jersey.  If I see you kick a puppy, I’m going to say something.  It’s not within me to not say something.”

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jim Marchese on the recent $8.5 million whistleblower award his mortgage company received in connection with the government’s record $16.65 billion settlement last summer with Bank of America Corp....				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Eisinger

				
Posted  04/21/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WHISTLEBLOWERS CAN SEEM A LITTLE CRAZY, IT'S BECAUSE ANYBODY WHO IS NOT A LITTLE BIT CRAZY WOULD BACK AWAY FROM THE ORDEAL OF CONFRONTING A CORPORATE BEHEMOTH OR GRINDING GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY."

Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica reporter, on his story of Halliburton whistleblower Tony Menendez whom Eisinger reports "there’s nothing crazy about . . . beyond an optimism that persists even when...				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Illingworth

				
Posted  04/20/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "It was one of those moments, I think, that you can sort of -- if you’re plotting it on a graph, the whole game changed from that point on, because, I guess, I had the balls to stand up and I told it how it was."

Simon Illingworth, former Melbourne, Australia police sergeant who helped expose police corruption and is now enjoying life as a farmer in rural Victoria, growing garlic and raising cattle, who recently...				 
				 					 

						
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