Whistleblower News From The Inside — April 30, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

 Wall Street pushes back on foreign bribery probe — “Wall Street banks are embroiled in an intense dispute with the US government over its ‘aggressive’ interpretation of foreign-bribery laws . . . with broad implications for how corporations do business overseas.”  WSJ

 Interview with UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld post prison — He explains “how he’s spent some of his IRS Whistleblower award money and why he’s still relentless about pushing the government to reveal the names of tens of thousands of American tax cheats.”  CNBC

Charles Hamel, influential oil industry whistleblower, dies at 84 — “Mr. Hamel’s work as a leading oil industry critic helped provoke congressional investigations that uncovered safety and maintenance problems on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.”  Washington Post

EPA criticized for persecuting 9/11 dust whistleblower — A Department of Labor judge rebuked the environmental agency “for concealing evidence in the case of a senior agency chemist who was fired . . .  [after] accus[ing] the agency of covering up the toxic properties of the dust emanating from the” 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.  Chemistry World

 Government declines to intervene in HMO whistleblower case — US Attorney Andrew Luger did not offer an explanation for the government’s decision to not intervene in the case which questions payments to HMOs for work in the state-federal Medicaid health insurance program in Minnesota.  StarTribune

 Black & Decker to pay $1.575M for delay in reporting hazards in cordless electric lawnmowers — The penalty settles allegations the company violated the Consumer Product Safety Act with respect to cordless electric lawnmowers that started spontaneously and did not properly stop.  DOJ