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Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 13, 2015

Posted  January 13, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

S&P nears $1B settlement with DOJ over inflated ratings – The giant bond ratings company is apparently close to settling charges of misleading investors about its ratings of mortgage-backed securities before the subprime crisis. NYT

DOJ will not call NYT reporter to testify at CIA whistleblower trial — The DOJ wanted James Risen to testify at the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with providing Risen details about a botched operation in Iran intended to disrupt that country’s nuclear program. NYT

Owners of Spectrum Care sent to prison for illegal kickbacks — The two physician owners of the Houston-area mental health clinic were sentenced to 148 months and 120 months respectively for their roles in the $97 million Medicare fraud scheme. DOJ

Campus police whistleblowers allege cover-up in college’s $1.5M textbook theft scheme — Three Collin College police officers who filed a whistleblower retaliation suit against the Texas school claim three college officials tried to cover up a scheme to steal $1.5M in textbooks. NBCDFW

A call for greater protections for UN whistleblowers — Bea Edwards, Government Accountability Project’s Executive & International Director, calls on Dr. Isobel Coleman, the newly appointed US Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform, to step up the UN’s efforts to protect whistleblowers. HuffPost

Former Iowa State University whistleblower to be paid $686,658 for wrongful firing — Dennis Smith, an editor for the school’s College of Engineering’s marketing office, claimed retaliation in exposing the falsification of employment records and outright theft by his boss Pamela Reinig. Des Moines Register