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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 - Solomon

				
Posted  01/5/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "Revelations from brave whistleblowers are essential for the informed consent of the governed."

From Norman Solomon, author of 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, in his Huffington Post piece on Why Jeffrey Sterling Deserves Support as a CIA Whistleblower.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Grassley

				
Posted  12/31/14
								

				 
								 				
-- "“There is an inherent bias against whistleblowers in the inspector general’s office.”."

Senator Chuck Grassley on new report finding a rise in the level of whistleblower retaliation among federal employees. Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Greenstein

				
Posted  12/30/14
								

				 
								 				
 -- "NO ONE CAN TRUST THE SYSTEM.  I TRUSTED IT AND I WAS NAIVE."

Former CIA whistleblower Ilana Greenstein on her efforts to report mismanagement within the agency and the whistleblower retaliation she suffered for speaking out.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Farrow

				
Posted  12/24/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “I’m actually proud of the fact I was able to put a stop to it. So often people let things slide and look the other way. If I had just quit, I knew things would just continue the way they were.”

Amy Farrow, the NP Precision whistleblower, on her efforts which led to the guilty plea of the company’s chief regarding his theft of $1.2M in funds the government paid the company under two US Army contracts. ...				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Cole

				
Posted  12/23/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “It was astounding in its breadth, its brazenness and its worldwide consequences.”

James Cole, DOJ Deputy Attorney General, on French engineering giant Alstom’s global bribery scheme to which it just pleaded guilty and agreed to a $772M criminal fine.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Branda

				
Posted  12/22/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH SUCCESS.  YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH CLOSE TO $6 BILLION THIS FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS THE LARGEST AMOUNT WE’VE EVER RECOVERED.”

Joyce Branda, head of the DOJ’s Civil Division, in her PBS Newshour panel discussion on whether the False Claims Act, with its heavy reliance on whistleblowers, actually deters fraud.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Farrow

				
Posted  12/19/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “THE REASON I REPORTED IT WAS BECAUSE I COULDN'T LET IT GO ON ANYMORE. I WAS AFRAID FOR MY SAFETY AND CAREER BUT I…DECIDED TO GO AHEAD WITH IT.”

Whistleblower Amy Farrow who reported defense contractor NP Precision Inc. was misusing progress payments on government contracts by failing to pay subcontractors and requesting progress payments under the contracts for costs that NP Precision had not actually...				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Al-Majid

				
Posted  12/17/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “Woe be to any other person who cares enough to risk personal safety to report FIFA corruption.”

Phaedra Al-Majid commenting on her claim that the world’s governing soccer body mistreated her and another whistleblower.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Deltour

				
Posted  12/16/14
								

				 
								 				
-- “FROM THE BEGINNING, I ACTED OUT OF CONVICTION, FOR MY IDEAS, NOT TO APPEAR IN THE MEDIA.”

Antoine Deltour, the 28-year-old former PricewaterhouseCoopers auditor charged with theft and violating trade secrets in Luxembourg in the wake of the LuxLeaks tax avoidance scandal.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Hiyama

				
Posted  12/10/14
								

				 
								 				
-- "THIS LAW WILL RESTRICT THE PEOPLES' RIGHT TO KNOW. IT'S FULL OF AMBIGUITY AND WILL TAKE US BACK TO THE 'PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER' CONTROLS OF WORLD WAR II."

From Tomoki Hiyama, one of approximately 800 people who gathered in front of the Japanese Parliament, protesting Japan’s new anti-whistleblower secrecy law which will limit disclosure of government misconduct by imposing on anyone leaking state secrets (and...				 
				 					 

						
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