Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 13, 2016
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The TSA has stopped retaliating against whistleblowers — TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee what he has implemented since taking over last year, and cited improving workplace morale, overhauling senior management and enhancing training for screeners at checkpoints. Time
China state-owned bank must face U.S. whistleblower claim-ruling –A federal judge revived a whistleblower claim by a former Agricultural Bank of China chief compliance officer in her $8 million discrimination lawsuit against the bank, ruling that she may try to show that AgBank reduced her authority and disparaged her in retaliation for her reporting a possible violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. Reuters
SEC charges father, son and others in Tribal Bonds scheme — Defendants allegedly convinced a Native American tribal corporation affiliated with the Wakpamni District of the Oglala Sioux Nation to issue limited recourse bonds that the father-and-son duo had already structured. They then acquired two investment advisory firms and installed officers to arrange the purchase of $43 million in bonds using clients’ funds. SEC
Russia, Kenya track teams may miss Rio after doping rulings – The World Anti-Doping Agency suspended Kenya’s anti-doping agency after determining a new law passed there to combat doping was “a complete mess” and found that testing by independent authorities in Russia has decreased by more than two-thirds in the past year, jeopardizing both country’s teams from being eligible for the Rio Olympics. Washington Post
Kentucky anesthesiologist sentenced to 100 months for health care fraud — “This doctor was operating as a drug dealer in a white coat. This sentence should be a wake-up call to physicians across the state: if you’re overprescribing narcotics you are facing a lengthy prison sentence.” DOJ
NHS whistleblower ‘was treated unfairly’ after alleging death rate-fixing — Sandra Haynes-Kirkbright was head of clinical coding at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust when she first alleged there were systematic flaws in its data leading to overpayments to the hospital trust; now an independent review into how the trust subsequently handled her allegations uncovered “evidence of a lack of proper governance and management at senior levels.” The Guardian