-- “ZURICH HAS COME TO RESEMBLE AN OVERSIZE COLLEGE DORM FOR INDICTED SWISS FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS.”
Bloomberg reporter Jesse Drucker, commenting on the 21 financial advisers in Switzerland under U.S. indictment who remain at large. Click here for more.
-- "I feel like I'm being punished for speaking up."
Kimberly King, after being fired and sued by Lear Corporation for protesting the working conditions at the company's Selma, Alabama auto parts plant. Click here for more.
-- “Isolate. Then defame. Moving me to a storage bin makes me feel bad, but they are sending a message. They are trying to suppress [whistleblowers’] willingness to try to make a better life for these veterans.”
Dr. Christian Head, who reported to Congress about patient wait time cover-ups at the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System. Click here for more.
-- "When it comes to the fight against manipulation and related corruption, sport needs the help and cooperation of governments and governmental authorities and other stakeholders much more than in any other area."
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on the IOC's introduction of a whistleblower hotline open to athletes, coaches, referees and members of the public with "100 percent anonymity" and "the...
-- “IT SEEMS THAT THE HUMAN FAMILY HAS REFUSED TO LEARN FROM ITS MISTAKES CAUSED BY THE LAW OF TERROR, SO THAT TODAY, TOO, THERE ARE THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE OTHERS WITH THE HELP OF A FEW, AND WITH THE COMPLICIT SILENCE OF OTHERS WHO SIMPLY STAND BY.”
Pope Francis on the World War I-era slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks and "his frustration with what he considers global indifference toward the...
-- “There's lots of pockets of ugliness at the (VA). It's really set the standard for whistleblower retaliation.”
Government Accountability Project Legal Director Tom Devine in connection with the recent efforts of the family of deceased VA whistleblower Christopher Kirkpatrick to pressure the agency to do more to protect whistleblowers so what happened to him "doesn't happen to anyone else." Click here for more.
-- “The Lenape tribe got a better deal on the sale of Manhattan island than New York City’s pension funds have been getting from Wall Street.”
New York Times writer Patrick McGeehan on the New York City Controller’s Office just-released analysis “that, over the past 10 years, the five pension funds have paid more than $2 billion in fees to money managers and have received virtually nothing in return.”...
-- “TO HAVE FORMER OFFICIALS IN THE SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY BECOME THE CHIEF REGULATORS OF THAT INDUSTRY AT THE FDA IS LIKE THE FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE.”
Michael F. Jacobson, Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, on the FDA’s failure to take action in the $33 billion-a-year supplements industry which according to a recent study poses a serious health risk. Click here for more.
-- “WE HOPE THIS INSPIRES THEM TO REFLECT UPON THE RESPONSIBILITY WE ALL BEAR TO ENSURE OUR LIBERTIES EXIST LONG INTO THE FUTURE.”
A group of artists who installed a 100-pound, 4-foot-tall bust of former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn -- by fusing it onto the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to American POWs who lost their lives during the Revolutionary War -- for the...