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Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 8, 2014

Posted  October 8, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Twitter sues US government over national security requests — The world’s largest microblogging platform claims the Justice Department’s restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government’s requests for user data violate the First Amendment.  Reuters

What motivates a whistleblower? — “It’s less about the psychology of the individual and more about the severity of the situation they’ve uncovered.”  Huff Post

DRS Technical Services to pay $13.7m for overbilling government — The government claimed the defense contractor violated the False Claims Act by overbilling it for work performed by DRS personnel who lacked the job qualifications required by the contract.  DOJ

Nobel Prize for Snowden? — Experts say ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday, but such a decision could cause huge complications for Norway with one of its closest allies, the US.  Christian Science Monitor

GlaxoSmithKline investigating potential bribery in United Arab Emirates — Prompted by a whistleblower complaint from a GSK sales manager in the Gulf state, the giant drugmaker is hoping to avoid a repeat of its record $489M million fine in China last month.  Reuters

EU investigates Amazon’s tax arrangements in Luxembourg — Amazon is just the latest US company (after Apple and Starbucks) to be caught in the EU’s high-profile clampdown on tax avoidance by multinationals in Europe.  WSJ