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Importance of Whistleblowers

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2017 Whistleblower of the Year Nominee -- Susan Fowler

Posted  12/22/17
On February 19, 2017, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler fired the shot heard round Silicon Valley.  In her explosive blog post, “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber,” Ms. Fowler described rampant sexual harassment and institutionalized sexism at one of the tech world’s most hyped companies.  As Maureen Dowd put it, Ms. Fowler “pierced the self-indulgent, adolescent Pleasure Island mentality of...

2017 Whistleblower of the Year Nominee -- Sanofi Aventis

Posted  12/22/17
This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Sanofi Aventis US, one of our candidates for 2017 Whistleblower of the Year.  The US subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical giant is our only "corporate" candidate for this accolade but represents a growing trend in the whistleblower world of companies saying something when they see something they believe falls outside the realm of business fair play.  In this case, it was...

2017 Whistleblower of the Year Nominee -- Joel Clement

Posted  12/22/17
 By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Joel Clement, a scientist and former director of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy Analysis, who was reassigned last summer to an Interior Department accounting office after blowing the whistle on climate change.  Clement believes he was retaliated against for speaking about the dangers climate change poses to Alaskan Native...

A New Study on Fraud and Misconduct in Research

Posted  12/5/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team As reported in Inside Higher Education, two professors from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have conducted a comprehensive study of research fraud from the 1800's to the present. In their just-published book, Fraud and Misconduct in Research: Detection, Investigation and Organizational Response (University of Michigan Press),...

How to Prevent Corruption in Government-Owned Enterprises

Posted  11/28/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team In its just-released report, Transparency International has set forth its hit-list of how best to control for the never-ending corruption that exists in so-called state-owned enterprises (SOEs) operating across the globe. These are the entities in many countries that supply crucial public services such as energy, water, transportation and health care and which are controlled or...

Taxpayers Against Fraud President’s Award Given to Former Client David Barbetta

Posted  11/16/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Constantine Cannon Partner, Eric Havian (right), presents the Taxpayers Against Fraud President’s Award to former client David Barbetta (left). Mr. Havian led the successful representation of Mr. Barbetta, now a whistleblower advocate, against DaVita Healthcare Partners. In 2014, DaVita paid $400 million to settle the case, the largest stand-alone kickback settlement ever.

Trump Withdraws Nomination of OSC Head Carolyn Lerner, Popular Whistleblower Advocate

Posted  03/22/17
In a move criticized by whistleblower advocates, President Trump “withdr[ew] from further Senate consideration” the reappointment nomination of Carolyn Lerner.  An Obama administration appointee, Lerner has been Special Counsel since 2011, heading the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).   The independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency’s stated primary mission includes “protecting federal...

New Study Finds That Whistleblowers Deter Corporate Malfeasance

Posted  02/22/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team A new study by Jaron H. Wilde, a University of Iowa accounting professor, shows that companies experience a significant reduction in financial wrongdoing after undergoing investigations prompted by whistleblower reports. Wilde’s paper, titled “The Deterrent Effect of Employee Whistleblowing on Firms’ Financial Misreporting and Tax Aggressiveness,” will be published in...

Grassley to Trump: Whistleblowers Are Key to ‘Draining the Swamp’

Posted  02/10/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Senator Charles Grassley wrote a letter to Trump urging him to see that whistleblowers are instrumental in helping to “drain the swamp” in Washington by shedding light on fraud, waste and abuse. In particular, Grassley said he has asked every president since Regan to hold a White House Rose Garden ceremony to honor the work of whistleblowers, but no other president has...

In Their Own Words -- Grassley

Posted  12/2/16

-- “Whistleblowers are some of the most patriotic people I know — men and women who labor, often anonymously, to let Congress and the American people know when the government is not working so we can fix it.”

Senator Charles Grassley writing to FBI Director James Comey regarding a suspended FBI agent who blew the whistle on possible conflicts of interest in the Justice Department.
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