Whistleblower News From The Inside — January 14, 2016
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Animal welfare, whistleblower groups sue over North Caroline workplace bill — A coalition of national interest groups including Government Accountability Project, PETA, Center for Food Safety, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Farm Sanctuary, and Food & Water Watch, sued in federal court in North Carolina on Wednesday to strike down a new law that allows employers to sue whistleblowers who report violations of environmental and worker safety rules. Al Jazeera America
Russian whistleblower may have spoken to MI6 before his death, court hears — A Russian whistleblower instrumental in exposing a massive alleged money-laundering ring involving the Russian mafia and the Russian state may have “talked to Britain’s spy agencies” before his mysterious death in November 2012, when he was possibly poisoned by a lethal fern. The Guardian
School vendor to plead guilty in after-school tutoring corruption case — Another player in a public school corruption case has agreed to plead guilty to her role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving Kenyetta Wilbourn Snapp, the infamous bat-carrying principal who drove a Maserati with a Gucci vanity plate while running struggling Detroit schools. Detroit Free Press
Healthcare CEO sentenced to prison time over use of public funds on fortune tellers — After a whistleblower noticed irregularities in a health care company CEO’s spending habits, the state of Michigan conducted an investigation revealing 500 thousand dollars of Medicare funds spent on fortune tellers. The CEO was sentenced to prison time and forced to forfeit his pension. Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hills Patch.
Dublin archdiocese whistleblower fought to reveal ‘under-reporting’ of homelessness issue — A former Crosscare policy officer’s long fight to blow the whistle on unethical practices in public service is compelling and familiar in terms of the fate of whistleblowers in Ireland. Irish Examiner
Ohio ambulance company owner guilty of fraud — The owner of an Ohio ambulance company that falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid over one million dollars for transportation services it did not perform now faces up to twenty years in prison. Dayton Daily News.