Question of the Week — Should Public Sector Whistleblowers Receive Awards for Exposing Wrongdoing?
Posted 08/31/18
Question of the Week
This archive includes posts from our “Question of the Week” series, in which the Whistleblower Insider blog addresses topics of interest to whistleblowers. Return to:
Question of the Week: Should Reality Winner be behind bars for leaking a classified report on Russian election hacking?
Posted 08/24/18
Question of the Week — Is Omarosa Manigault Newman a Whistleblower?
Posted 08/15/18
Question of the Week -- Do the VA external advisors mean fraud is more likely to happen?
Posted 08/9/18
Question of the Week -- Is Tesla fighting a “saboteur” or retaliating against a whistleblower?
Posted 08/3/18
Question of the Week - Did Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Get the Punishment He Deserves?
Posted 07/25/18
The SEC announced on Tuesday that Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland, two of his companies, a former senior executive, and a former contractor have agreed to settle SEC charges of defrauding more than 100 investors out of $27.4 million. Fyre Festival, promoted as a “life-changing,” luxury music festival in the Bahamas, is now infamous for collapsing into chaos on its inaugural weekend. The SEC alleged that...
Question of the Week -- Should the SEC Cap Whistleblower Awards?
Posted 07/20/18
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose amending the rules governing its whistleblower program. The program encourages individuals with knowledge of violations of securities laws to share that information with the SEC by providing monetary incentives and protection against retaliation by employers. Currently, a whistleblower may receive an award of up to 30% of any government recovery based...
Question of the Week -- Should Alabama lawmakers pass legislation to stop sheriffs from pocketing funds meant to buy inmates’ meals?
Posted 07/13/18
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday ordered an end to a practice that allowed sheriffs to keep for themselves excess funds allocated for prisoners’ meals. However, the Depression-era law used to justify the practice is still on the books. In recent years, sheriffs across Alabama relied on the legal loophole to pocket leftover funds after they had paid for inmates’ meals. For instance, Etowah County Sheriff Todd...
Question of the Week -- Will New CMS Initiatives Help Curb Fraud and Waste in Medicaid?
Posted 06/27/18
On June 26, 2018 CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced new initiatives to reduce fraud in the Medicaid program. The three new initiatives are to (1) emphasize program integrity in audits of state claims for federal match funds and medical loss ratios (MLRs); (2) conduct new audits of state beneficiary eligibility determinations; and (3) optimize state-provided claims and provider data. These initiatives are meant to...
Question of the Week -- Do You Agree With The Ruling That AT&T’s Takeover of Time Warner Can Proceed Without Limitations?
Posted 06/13/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The New York Times reported that AT&T took one step closer to becoming a telecom-media giant after Richard J. Leon, a United States District Court judge, ruled that its $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner can proceed without limitations.
The takeover was announced in October 2016, and is the latest effort by a big telecom or cable company to acquire media assets. The cable...