Whistleblower News From The Inside — January 26, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Whistleblower priest claims Palm Beach Diocese forced him out — “Father John Gallagher is a priest without a parish — the result, he said, of his decision to tell authorities about a West Palm Beach priest who showed pornographic material to a minor.”  My Palm Beach Post

US Treasury says Putin is corrupt — According to Adam Szubin, who oversees US Treasury sanctions, the Russian president is corrupt and that the US government has known this for “many, many years.”  BBC

A tidal wave of corporate migrants seeking tax shelter — “Despite the federal government’s rescue — and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks over the last several decades . . . Johnson Controls [is] renouncing its United States corporate citizenship by selling itself to Tyco International, based in Ireland, a deal struck in large part to reduce its tax bill.”  NYT

Florida AG battles state legislature over Medicaid fraud — Florida’s Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi is fighting her own party, testifying before a State House panel that a Republican-sponsored bill “was a desperate attempt to help companies that provide laboratory testing for the states safety net health care program.”  News Talk Florida

Soccer whistleblower website Football Leaks accused of blackmail — “Welcome to soccer, a sport so corrupt that even the whistleblowers end up accused of corruption.”  Vocativ

Trucking company ordered to pay up after illegally terminating whistleblower-driver — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered New York-based Brindi Trailer Sales and Services to pay a fired employee more than $45,000 in lost wages and fees after finding he was illegally terminated for notifying regulators of a workplace safety violation.  Business Insurance