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Importance of Whistleblowers

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Read the Essay Submitted by Maggie Keenan in the Second Annual Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted  12/14/21
The Constantine Cannon whistleblower team is honored to announce this year’s Third-Place Winner of our Second Annual Law School Whistleblower Essay Contest.  The third-place award goes to Maggie Keenan, a professor at (and 2020 J.D. graduate of) Cleveland State University. Maggie received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from Cleveland State University in 2000.  She later received her...

Tagged in: Correctional Services Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Retaliation, Scholarship,

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2021 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate - Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen

Posted  12/14/21
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When identifying this year's possible Whistleblower of the Year candidates, Frances Haugen was perhaps the most obvious pick.  Everyone around the globe knows her story by now.  She is the former Facebook data scientist who several months ago – with the help of a cache of internal company documents – spoke out against what she sees as the perilous path Facebook has taken in broadening the reach of its social...

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2021 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate - Ifeoma Ozoma

Posted  12/13/21
Pinterest might seem harmless, with its boards upon boards of dessert recipes and do-it-yourself rustic chic wedding favors. But, according to Ifeoma Ozoma, the tech company harbored a festering internal culture of racism and misogyny. While Ozoma blew the whistle in 2020, her experiences have lead her to become an advocate for whistleblowers.  For her whistleblowing and her continued advocacy, we nominate Ozuma as a...

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2021 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate - Phil Saviano

Posted  12/10/21
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“He refuses to be silent.” That was the headline for the Boston Globe’s 1990s-piece reporting Phil Saviano had denied a settlement with confidentiality terms meant to prevent him from speaking out about the sexual abuse he endured in his youth. Thirty years after he was molested by a priest named Father Holley in Worcester, Massachusetts, Saviano became one of the first survivors to blow the whistle on sexual...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower of the Year,

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Read the Essay Submitted by Spencer VanHoose in the Second Annual Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted  12/9/21
The Constantine Cannon whistleblower team is pleased to share with you the Fourth Place Winner of the firm's Second Annual Law School Whistleblower Essay Contest.  That award goes to Spencer VanHoose, a first-year student at West Virginia University College of Law, Class of 2024. Spencer received a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) from Shepherd University in West Virginia, with a major in Political Science...

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

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2021 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate - Alex Vlasov

Posted  12/3/21
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Hollywood’s world of fictional fame and fortune produces few real-life whistleblowers; Alex Vlasov is an exception.  But he doesn’t work for a film studio, music company, or media conglomerate.  For nine years he worked in private security, for a company called Black Box Security in Woodland, California.  With a client roster of Hollywood personalities, “staffed by former elite members of the Israeli...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower of the Year,

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Announcing the Winners of the Second Constantine Cannon Law School Essay Contest

Posted  12/3/21
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Earlier this year, Constantine Cannon launched its Second Annual Law School Essay Writing Contest on the importance of whistleblowers.  We wanted to hear from our future leaders of the bar on the importance of whistleblowers and to instill at this early stage of their careers the much-needed recognition of and appreciation for the critical role whistleblowers play in our society. Well, close to a hundred students...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship,

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Recent Settlements Show Kickbacks are Always a DOJ Enforcement Priority

Posted  11/15/21
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The Department of Justice regularly highlights the areas of fraudulent conduct it intends to target as enforcement priorities.  These identified enforcement priorities tend to cover burgeoning areas of fraud or particular misbehavior especially ripe or prevalent because of the particular times we live in.  As might be expected, DOJ's current listing of priorities includes fraud related to the pandemic, opioids, the

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Medical Devices and DME, Pharma Fraud, Provider Fraud,

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Hyundai Whistleblower Represented by Constantine Cannon Gets $24.3 Million, First-Ever Award for Reporting Defects to Auto Safety Regulators

Posted  11/9/21
In the first-ever whistleblower award made to an auto-industry insider under the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)  announced today that it will pay former Hyundai safety engineer Gwang Ho Kim $24.3 million for information he provided about safety defects in millions of Hyundai and Kia vehicles. Kim supplied startling evidence to the government...

Tagged in: Auto Safety, CC Lawyers, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Constantine Cannon Attorneys Mary Inman and Leah Judge Contribute to The Tech Worker Handbook

Posted  10/8/21
This week, Pinterest whistleblower Ifeoma Ozoma launched The Tech Worker Handbook, a collection of resources designed to help workers in the tech industry decide whether to speak out about wrongdoing.  The Handbook was created with funding from the Omidyar Network in partnership with the Signals Network, the Whistleblowing International Network, and Lioness Strategies.  Constantine Cannon’s own Mary Inman and Leah...

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