Whistleblower News From The Inside — February 16, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Ford spent $40M to reshape asbestos science — “Stung by lawsuits, the automaker hired consultants to change the narrative on the risks of asbestos brakes.”  Center for Public Integrity

 Pfizer to settle Medicaid rebate claims for $785M — The drugmaker says the amount would settle the long-running whistleblower-prompted U.S. government investigation of allegations that its Wyeth unit overcharged government Medicaid health programs for the heartburn drug Protonix.  Fox

 Whistleblower lawyers counterattack against DC Disciplinary Counsel — “The DC Disciplinary Counsel, previously known as the DC Bar Counsel, is on the attack against whistleblower lawyers. And whistleblower lawyers are not happy about it. They have launched something of a counterattack.”  Corporate Crime Reporter

CIA sued for records on waterboarding whistleblower — “A nonprofit dedicated to official transparency joined an NBC reporter in suing the Justice Department and CIA for documents they think will show whether the agencies targeted [John Kiriakou,] the former agent who revealed the government’s then-secret use of waterboarding.”  AllGov

 Whistleblower says NHS hospitals pressured to “cook the books” — “The finance director of an unnamed district general hospital says they have become “very concerned” that national regulators are “pressuring NHS providers to potentially mislead the public and Government departments over their true, underlying financial performance.”  Independent

 Los Angeles School District whistleblower speaks out — “Right now, the highest authority figures on the Los Angeles Unified School District are burying their heads to allegations of possible criminal activity and actively circling the wagons around an out of control Office of the Inspector General.”  CityWatch