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Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 16, 2016

Posted  September 16, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

SEC Urges Whistleblowers to Come Forward — In his speech at the sixteenth annual Taxpayers Against Fraud conference, SEC enforcement chief Andrew Ceresney provided advice to would-be whistleblowers on how to submit successful tips to the whistleblower office as the SEC looks to expand its highly successful whistleblower program. SEC

Two former executives of foreign defense contractor charged in expanding fraud and corruption probe — The indictment alleges that executives of Glenn Defense Marine Asia submitted more than $5 million in false claims and invoices to the U.S. Navy and worked to perpetuate and cover up the fraud by consistently misrepresenting to the U.S. Navy the cost of providing services to its ships in Asia, even going so far as to submit false price quotes from non-existent companies on letterhead created from graphics cut and pasted from the internet. DOJ 

Trump can’t delay fraud trial — Donald Trump failed to persuade a federal judge to postpone a Nov. 28 trial in which he’ll face former enrollees in his real-estate seminars who claim they were cheated. Bloomberg 

U.S. lawmakers say Afghanistan corruption threatens future spending — U.S. senators questioned State Department officials closely on Thursday about corruption in Afghanistan and said failure to address it could cause them to rethink the billions of dollars the United States spends there each year. Reuters

Congressional report slams NSA leaker Edward Snowden — The Republican-led committee released a three-page unclassified summary of its two-year bipartisan examination of whether Snowden’s disclosures caused harm to U.S. national security. Ben Wizner, Snowden’s attorney at the ACLU, blasted the report, saying “after years of investigation, the committee still can’t point to any remotely credible evidence that Snowden’s disclosures caused harm.”
SF Chronicle