Whistleblower Spotlight and Interviews

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Marketed for Children Bypasses Overstretched FDA Testing Protocols

The NY Times reports that hundreds of children were poisoned last year from cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches that were traced to the Ecuadorian company Negasmart, which supplies to Austrofood and distributes the product under the name Wanabana.  The FDA, working with Ecuadorean investigators, traced the contamination of the Sri Lankan imported cinnamon to a spice grinder in Ecuador that likely intentionally...

Whistleblower Spotlight: Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi

Whistleblowers come in all shapes and sizes.  Some they write movies about, gaining fame (and sometimes fortune) in the process.  Others go in the opposite direction, victimized for their temerity; for daring to sound the alarm when something rubs against their moral compass.  Still others speak their truth quietly, just getting the job done without fanfare or rebuke so they can sleep better at night.  Regardless...

Whistleblower Spotlight: Chinese Rural AIDS Activist Gao Yaojie

Gao Yaojie, a Chinese doctor who relentlessly fought to expose an AIDS epidemic in rural China in the 1990s died on Sunday at her home in New York City.   Gao was a pioneer, studying medicine at a local university in her home province of Henan, China.  She graduated in 1953 and went on to specialize in women’s health.  Gao spent much of her time on the road treating patients in remote villages and came face to...

Honoring the Passing of Legendary Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg

“How can you measure the jeopardy that I'm in - whether it's 10 years, 20 years, 115 years, or other ludicrous amounts like that - to the penalty that has been paid already by 50,000 American families here and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families.” -Daniel Ellsberg, NPR archived recording. Daniel Ellsberg, freedom of the press advocate, anti-nuclear activist, and a 2021 Whistleblower of the Year...

The Whistleblowers Behind the Impeachment Proceedings of Suspended Texas AG Ken Paxton

Whistleblowers come from all industries, occupations, backgrounds, and political affiliations.  On June 16, the Texas Tribune ran a profile on the four whistleblowers behind impeachment allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which drives home the point. First, some necessary context.  In November 2020, the four whistleblowers filed a lawsuit against Paxton under the Texas Whistleblower Act.  That...

Listen to James Glenn, Cybersecurity Whistleblower and Constantine Cannon Client, on Tech & Main Podcast

Cybersecurity whistleblower James Glenn and Constantine Cannon whistleblower attorney Mike Ronickher spoke to the Tech & Main cybersecurity podcast about the experience Glenn had discovering and reporting a security flaw in Cisco’s Video Surveillance Manager software.  Glenn, who was represented by Constantine Cannon, brought a whistleblower lawsuit that resulted in the first government recovery under the False...

Constantine Cannon Client Featured in Australian Broadcasting Company Story on Boeing Culture and Safety Incidents

Boeing manager-turned-whistleblower Ed Pierson, represented by Constantine Cannon whistleblower attorneys Eric Havian, Chris McLamb, and Leah Judge, was featured in an Australian Broadcasting Company story on Boeing’s 737 MAX crisis.  In the story, Mr. Pierson describes the production problems he witnessed at the plant where the 737 Max was produced and his concern that this troubling production environment may...

Interview with George Washington University Professor Kyle Welch on his Corporate Whistleblowing Research

Whistleblower Insider had the chance to interview Professor Kyle Welch, who teaches accounting at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Professor Welch has focused his research on the effects of whistleblowers in corporate America, and has found that healthy whistleblowing systems tend to make companies more profitable, the subject of fewer lawsuits, and hit with fewer, and lower, fines. Professor Welch’s...

2018 Whistleblower of the Year Interview Part II — Siobhan O'Connor

Here is Part II of our interview with Whistleblower Insider’s 2018 Whistleblower of the Year Siobhan O’Connor. Siobhan O’Connor was a devout, lifelong Catholic when she landed her dream job as the executive assistant to Bishop Richard J. Malone of the Diocese of Buffalo. In her own words, she was “overjoyed” to be working for her “beloved Church.” But the job “went from a dream to a nightmare in about...

2018 Whistleblower Of The Year Interview Part I — Siobhan O’Connor

Here is Part I of our interview with Whistleblower Insider’s 2018 Whistleblower of the Year Siobhan O’Connor. Siobhan O’Connor was a devout, lifelong Catholic when she landed her dream job as the executive assistant to Bishop Richard J. Malone of the Diocese of Buffalo. In her own words, she was “overjoyed” to be working for her “beloved Church.” But the job “went from a dream to a nightmare in about...