Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 20, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Farmer sues Perdue for violation of whistleblower law — The Food Integrity Campaign filed a historic whistleblower retaliation complaint under the Food Safety Modernization Act on behalf of its client, Perdue contract farmer Craig Watts, who alleges the poultry company initiated intimidation tactics against him after he publicized animal welfare concerns. GAP

A whistleblower’s “horror story” – Profile of former Countrywide/Bank of America whistleblower Michael Winston and the hard road he had as a whistleblower in the pre-Dodd-Frank era.  Rolling Stone

SNC-Lavalin charged in Libyan business probe – Montreal-based NC-Lavalin Group says it will enter not guilty pleas after the Canadian prosecutors announced today that the company and two of its divisions have been charged with corruption and fraud over its business dealings in Libya.  CBC

Switzerland flexes parliamentary muscle in HSBC investigation — Swiss lawmakers plan to question the country’s financial watchdog about HSBC’s Swiss bank to determine whether parliament needs to take a more active role in investigation of a trove of details on alleged tax evasion by some of the bank’s wealthy clients.   Reuters

Sheldon Silver is indicted — A federal grand jury in Manhattan voted yesterday to indict Sheldon Silver on the fraud and extortion charges that were the basis of his arrest last month, and led to his ouster as speaker of the State Assembly.   NYT