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Importance of Whistleblowers

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Constantine Cannon Partner Mary Inman To Speak On The Rise Of UK And EU Whistleblowers

Posted  05/29/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Mary Inman, a partner in Constantine Cannon’s London office, will be presenting on behalf of the Institute of Business Ethics on June 14th about the rise in UK and EU whistleblowers making submissions under the American and Canadian whistleblower reward programs. There is currently much debate in the EU about rewarding those who speak up.  On the one hand, some believe that...

Question of the Week -- Should Congress Provide Financial Bounties to Antitrust Whistleblowers?

Posted  05/9/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Cartels are being busted. More and more every year. But they are not going away. For every conspiracy the government cracks down on, we can be sure there are several more that carry on unnoticed and unscathed. A broad-based whistleblower program could be the most promising solution to fill this antitrust enforcement gap. But it has to include financial incentives to compensate...

British Whistleblowers can Make “Millions” under US Laws if they “Shop” UK Companies, American Lawyers Say

Posted  04/30/18
The Telegraph reported this weekend on Andrew Patrick, the first British whistleblower to expose a UK company for evading U.S. import duties and only the second British whistleblower to receive an award under the False Claims Act. Mr. Patrick brought a qui tam lawsuit in 2016 against Pure Collection Ltd (“Pure”). The U.S. government intervened in the lawsuit and it ultimately resulted in a settlement of over...

Armstrong Case Shows Whistleblowers Are Key to Doping Fix: Constantine Cannon Lawyers Weigh In

Posted  04/25/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Last week, cyclist Lance Armstrong agreed to pay the United States $5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations surrounding his doping scandal, in which he admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs while racing under a U.S. Postal Service sponsorship. The settlement resolved a lawsuit filed in 2010 by whistleblower Floyd Landis-who himself participated in the scheme as...

National Whistleblower Reward Day

Posted  02/20/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team February 20th is National Whistleblower Reward Day. The day was created by former Department of Justice Attorney Joel Hesch to bring attention to the importance of whistleblower reward programs. The False Claims Act is the foundation of the U.S. whistleblower system, and by far the most widely used statute by whistleblowers to report corporate fraud and misconduct. Since 1986, the...

Senator Grassley Warns Attorney General Sessions against Stifling Whistleblowers

Posted  02/7/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Yesterday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and whistleblower advocate Charles Grassley released a letter he sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing concerns that a January memo issued by the Department of Justice to its employees violates laws designed to protect government whistleblowers. Not mincing his words, Sen. Grassley wrote that “the memorandum does not...

British Columbia: It’s Time for a Securities Whistleblower Program

Posted  12/28/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The ever-increasing complexity of the securities markets is making fraud harder to detect and making whistleblowers more essential than ever before. With insider knowledge, whistleblowers can help enforcement officials detect fraud and apprehend fraudsters much quicker than otherwise. Whistleblowers who approach authorities take tremendous risk, including the risk of ruining their...

Justice Department Recovers over $3.7 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2017

Posted  12/22/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The Justice Department announced that it obtained more than $3.7 billion in settlements and judgements from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government during the 2017 fiscal year. Of the $3.7 billion, $2.4 billion involved the health care industry. Since the False Claims Act was amended in 1986, the Department of Justice has recovered over $56...

2017 Whistleblower of the Year Nominee -- The Weinstein Whistleblowers

Posted  12/22/17
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features the many women who came forward to face down years of sexual harassment—and worse—from producer Harvey Weinstein, helping to spark a long overdue national conversation.   Weinstein’s alleged abuses spanned decades, with reports of misconduct from as far back as 1980.  The few women brave enough to report his behavior were silenced either by Weinstein’s...

2017 Whistleblower of the Year Nominee -- Paradise Papers Whistleblower(s)

Posted  12/22/17
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features the Paradise Papers leaker(s), an unnamed whistleblower (or whistleblowers) responsible for shining a light on the widespread use of illicit offshore tax havens. The November 2017 exposé revealed where government officials, royalty, entertainers, and powerful corporations store their cash to avoid taxes.  The details are in 13.4 million documents, such as emails and...
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