Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 15, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Government employees file record number of retaliation complaints – The Office of Special Counsel’s annual report to Congress reveals that the government received over 5,000 complaint of whistleblower retaliation last year, with another record year expected in 2015.  Fierce Government

Call for VA whistleblower protections – Over 35 groups have sent a letter to the Senate asking for passage of a bill to protect whistleblowers in the Veterans Affairs administration.  Government Accountability Project

Feds arrest 2 mobile phone executives for fraud – Two mobile phone aggregators were arrested on charges that they scammed hundreds of thousands of customers out of millions of dollars by auto-subscribing them to receive texts they had not signed up for.  USAO – SDNY

China cracking down on insider trading – Chinese authorities are investigating whether the president of Citic Securities Co., the country’s largest securities trading house, and other executives committed insider trading offenses.  Wall Street Journal

Tennessee school wins $5 million False Claims Act lawsuit – The school won what some have called the largest recovery ever under the state’s fraud statute after a teacher ripped off the special education and disability programs to pad her income.  Knoxville News Sentinel