Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 27, 2015
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling convicted of espionage – Sterling, who was involved in a highly secretive operation to give faulty nuclear plans to Iran, is convicted of providing classified information about his work to a New York Times reporter. Washington Post
DuPont wins whistleblower suit in Louisiana — A Baton Rouge jury rules against Jeffrey Simoneaux, a former plant employee, who brought a False Claims Act whistleblower suit against the company alleging it leaked carcinogens along the Mississippi River for years but failed to report the leaks to the EPA to avoid paying government fines. Houston Chronicle
The Whistleblowers Are the Heroes — “Describing whistleblower lawyers as ‘war profiteers’ uses funhouse-mirror logic: a strong response to the piece entitled “Trial Lawyers as War Profiteers.” WSJ
US Agency for International Development suspends one of its largest contractors — The agency finds Virginia-based nonprofit group International Relief and Development to have engaged in “serious misconduct in [its] performance, management, internal controls and present responsibility” during a review of some of the work it performed in Afghanistan and Iraq. NYT
Motives behind proposed Las Vegas whistleblower rules questioned — The text of the bill aims to protect city whistleblowers from “reprisals or retaliatory action” for disclosing government misdeeds but some question whether instead it would be “used to discourage lawsuits at an administrative stage.” Las Vegas Review Journal
Owner of Nation’s Best Care Home Health Corp. going to jail for Medicare fraud — Ramon Regueira is sentenced to 106 months in prison and to pay $21M in restitution for his participation in a $30M Medicare fraud scheme. DOJ