-- “At a time that the Prime Minister is seeking international leadership on corruption, the UK can ill afford to be seen to be slow on the uptake with corruption allegations or indeed less proactive than its international partners in responding to whistleblowers."
Corruption Watch Policy Director Susan Hawley and the Chief Executive of the whistleblower charity Public Concern at Work Cathy James, in a letter to UK...
-- “There has never been a time, however, when the government of the United States was so perversely and systematically dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side deals, log-rolling, vote-trading, and sweetheart deals of one kind or another.”
Former US Senator Gary Hart on this "age of vanity politics and campaigns-for-hire." Click here for more.
-- “IF THIS LAW HAD BEEN PASSED TWO YEARS AGO, I WOULDN’T BE HERE SELLING CHARCOAL AND MY FAMILY WOULD PROBABLY NOT SUFFER.”
Tanzanian whistleblower John Lugembe, who lost his office job for blowing the whistle on corruption, commenting on Tanzania’s proposed Whistleblower and Witness Protection Act. Click here for more.
-- “Through personal sacrifice and courage, two whistleblowers exposed knowingly wasteful dosing practices designed simply to increase profits and improperly drain the government’s resources,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John Horn of the Northern District of Georgia. “This settlement returns hundreds of millions of dollars to the treasury that had been improperly obtained by DaVita through these wasteful...
-- “AS WE PROVIDED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN AID TO THE COLOMBIAN ARMY OVER MANY YEARS, ITS TROOPS SYSTEMATICALLY EXECUTED CIVILIANS. WORSE YET, THE OFFICERS WHO WERE IN CHARGE HAVE ESCAPED JUSTICE, AND SOME REMAIN IN SENIOR POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY.”
Senator Patrick Leahy writing about allegations that the Colombian army killed civilians and then posed their bodies as enemy combatants to boost kill numbers.
-- "I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REVEAL, FOR 12 YEARS, THE LARGEST SINGLE CASE OF BANK FRAUD EVER TO HAVE OCCURRED IN THIS COUNTRY."
HSBC whistleblower Nicholas Wilson on his allegations that Britain’s largest bank - through its subsidiary HFC Bank - illegally mischarged British high-street customers in a fraud that goes back over three decades. Click here for more.
-- “Prior to your confirmation, you pledged to me that you would clean up the VA. Unfortunately, time and again, news reports highlight instances that illustrate a continuing culture of chaos at the VA that fails our veterans.”
Senator Charles Grassley writing to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald.
-- “Countries, religions and corporations sometimes do awful things in their names. It doesn’t diminish them to note their failures, their injustices, their crimes against humanity. It elevates them.”
New York Times Op-Ed writer Timothy Egan on his suggestion that President Obama "apologize for the land of the free being, at one time, the largest slaveholding nation on earth ... Because we own this past. As...
-- “This action represents the largest criminal healthcare fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice…[the government was being] billed for equipment that wasn’t provided, for care that wasn’t needed, and for services that weren’t rendered.”
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch commenting on $712 million Medicare bust. Click here for more.
-- “We’ve seen how whistleblower protections can be a real incentive to helping root out waste, fraud and abuse. This can be another tool in the toolbox to stop individuals who are looking at criminal antitrust activities.”
Senator Charles Grassley discussing his proposed Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act. Click here for more.