-- “These companies endangered and compromised the health and well-being of millions of Americans in order to turn a profit. This settlement makes clear that pharmaceutical companies using deceptive and unlawful tactics to promote drugs will not be tolerated in the United States.”
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, commenting on settlement with Bristol-Myers Squibb over allegations that the company...
-- We will vigorously pursue fraud on our federal health care programs. Aggressive enforcement helps ensure that production and distribution of safe products, and fair and honest dealing with the government, are not only good ethical and moral choices, but also good business.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Mizer speaking at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Enforcement, Litigation and...
-- "No one wants to be a whistleblower. This is something that’s hard to do. It’s hard enough to stand up to a bully in your life, to your boss in the office, much less the combined might of the National Security Agency, the FBI and, you know, the apparatus of government."
NSA whistleblower-in-exile Edward Snowden on what he would say to President Obama if given the chance. Click here for more.
-- “Indiana is not the place to try to fool the investing public. Here, we expect executives to care about shareholders and to be upfront and honest about what the companies they manage are doing.”
United States Attorney Josh Minkler of S.D. Indiana on the sentencing of Jeffrey Wilson and Craig Ducey for multi-million dollar fraud schemes involving biodiesel tax credits, renewable fuel credits and shares of...
-- “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.
-- “I gotta tell you I'm proud of it now. I'm proud to be a whistleblower.”
Wyndham Worldwide whistleblower Patricia Williams, commenting in the wake of a $20M retaliation award, on her role in blowing the whistle on the resort company. Read more here.
--“In 51 days, a new team will be running the department, and it will be up to them to decide whether they want to continue the policies that we’ve implemented in recent years. But I’m optimistic. Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn’t ideological; it’s good law enforcement.”
Deputy Attorney General Yates speaking at the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Foreign...
In Their Own Words -- Washington Post Editorial Board
Posted 11/29/16
-- "Money cannot make up for the shameful way city officials treated Mr. Payne. Nor can it erase the damaging message the city sent to honest workers wondering how to respond when they see wrongdoing."
Washington Post Editorial Board on the federal jury decision awarding Eric W. Payne $1.7 million and other relief for being wrongfully terminated from his D.C. government job because he blew the whistle on misconduct...
-- "The money allocated by Congress for the Waste Treatment Plant is intended to fund the Department of Energy’s important mission to clean up the contaminated Hanford nuclear site, and this mission is undermined if funds are wasted on goods or services that are not nuclear compliant or to further lobbying activities.”
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice...
-- “I was going up against a Long Island giant. I would do it again.... When you see something wrong, have enough nerve to stand up for it.”
Whistleblower Linda Gibbs, commenting on her decision to blow the whistle on systemic Medicare and Medicaid fraud by Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology, a large practice with more than 20 locations on New York’s Long Island. Click here and here for more.