Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 14, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Whistleblower sues VW after being fired over data deletion row – A fired employee who worked in a data center for Volkswagen in Michigan, “claims the company had carried on deleting data for weeks after an order from the Department of Justice on September 18th to stop routine data deletions.” Fortune

California businessman attempted cover up of stolen investor funds – The SEC has charged a California businessman with fraud, accusing him of “stealing assets and then trying to cover it up once the SEC caught onto his scheme.” SEC

Savannah river site nuclear weapons plant whistleblower fired for revelations – SRS whistleblower, Sandra Black, said her supervisors “had interfered with her work and had tried to intimidate her into changing her findings if they validated employees’ concerns” regarding health and safety, fraud, abuse, harassment and retaliation. The Herald

$3 million award in Arizona solar-power fraud federal lawsuit – Arizona U.S. District Judge David Bury orders a $3.1 million judgement against the men behind Matinee Energy for its “sophisticated solar-power fraud scheme.” Phoenix New Times