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Importance of Whistleblowers

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Top 10 Most Fascinating Whistleblower Stories and Recoveries of 2024

Posted  01/24/25
2024
We’re rolling out our slew of Top-10 lists covering whistleblower cases, government enforcement actions, and recoveries from 2024. Over the past year, we engaged with a vast number of interesting topics, government updates, and fraud settlements originated by whistleblowers, several represented by Constantine Cannon. As we look back at 2024, we’ve gathered some of the most fascinating whistleblower news and...

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DOJ's False Claims Act Roundup for FY 2024 -- Another Banner Year for the Government and Whistleblowers

Posted  01/16/25
Hundreds of dollars
The Department of Justice (DOJ) just released its False Claims Act results for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.  By all accounts, it has been another banner year for whistleblowers and the government in their efforts to combat fraud and recover pilfered taxpayer dollars. First, the overarching numbers for the year:
    • The government and whistleblowers recovered roughly $2.9 billion in False...

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Singapore Post Terminated Three Executives Over Mishandling Whistleblower’s Allegations

Posted  12/23/24
Whistleblower in Text
On December 22, Singapore Post announced it terminated three individuals including the CEO and two senior executives following an internal investigation that determined the company mishandled allegations about employees’ misconduct in business operations. According to Reuters, a whistleblower came forward with complaints about several workers in the company’s international e-commerce logistics parcels business....

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Lead-Tainted Applesauce Marketed for Children Bypasses Overstretched FDA Testing Protocols

Posted  03/1/24
Apple Sauce in Containers Next to Yellow Apple

The NY Times reports that hundreds of children were poisoned last year from cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches that were traced to the Ecuadorian company Negasmart, which supplies to Austrofood and distributes the product under the name Wanabana.  The FDA, working with Ecuadorean investigators, traced the contamination of the Sri Lankan imported cinnamon to a spice grinder in Ecuador that likely intentionally...

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DOJ Releases False Claims Act Results for 2023

Posted  03/1/24
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) just released its False Claims Act results for 2023.  By all accounts, it was another big year for the government's primary fraud-fighting tool.  The top-line numbers are roughly $2.7 billion in total recoveries from 543 settlements and judgments, the highest number of settlements and judgments in a single year.  This brings the total tally of False Claims Act recoveries to more than...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers,

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Vatican Puts Out the Call for Whistleblowers

Posted  02/7/24
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The Vatican wants to hear from whistleblowers.  This comes from the Vatican's recent release of a new Whistleblower Procedure, which outlines the Vatican's official enlistment of Church insiders to help keep the Holy House in order when it comes to financial fraud and corruption.  According to a post in Vatican News, the official news portal of the Vatican Holy See, the new procedure, which took effect last week...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

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Constantine Cannon Partner Gordon Schnell Published in Fortune on Why You Might Be the Next Big Whistleblower

Posted  01/3/24
Person Standing and their Shadow Displayed as Superhero
Constantine Cannon partner Gordon Schnell was published yesterday (January 2) in Fortune on why you might become the next big whistleblower.  He co-authored the piece with Amber Scorah, founder of Parallel Story, a nonprofit helping whistleblowers tell their stories. Schnell and Scorah have worked for years helping whistleblowers bring forward information about fraud and misconduct.  But not necessarily the kind...

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Better Markets Heralds SEC Whistleblower Program as a Model To Follow

Posted  12/14/23
Better Markets -- a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting the public interest in financial reform and the economy -- just released (on December 7) a report on the SEC Whistleblower Program, touting it as a $6 billion success story.  In announcing its findings, Better Markets did not spare its high praise for the whistleblower program, highlighting "just how critical [it] has been as a law enforcement tool, allowing the SEC...

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program,

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Why Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Should Be Treated as Friends, Not Foes

Posted  11/1/23
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A very insightful article in Security Week explains the rise of cybersecurity whistleblowers and why corporations would be wise to welcome them with open arms.  It may seem counterintuitive to embrace what many so readily dismiss as rabble-rousers or disgruntled employees getting in the way of business. But the higher truth, as the most experienced compliance professionals can attest, is that whistleblowers...

Tagged in: Cybersecurity and Data Breaches, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

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September 29, 2023

Registered investment adviser D. E. Shaw & Co. L.P. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle charges of violating the whistleblower protection rule of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  According to the SEC, between 2011 and 2019, the company required new employees to sign agreements prohibiting them from disclosing information to anyone outside the company without company authorization, a court order, or as required by law.  Between 2011 and 2023, the company also required about 400 departing employees to sign releases stating they had not filed complaints with any federal agency before they were able to receive benefits.  SEC

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