Indianapolis Hotel Workers Settle Wage-and-Hour Suit
February 5th, 2013
It was recently announced that a wage-and-hour lawsuit by a group of Indianapolis hotel workers against the major national staffing company that employed them has been settled. The workers had argued they were never fully paid for housekeeping and ot…
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Major Whistleblower Case Pending Against Lance Armstrong
January 31st, 2013
As Lance Armstrong readies for his big Oprah appearance, an important legal issue looms in the background, one that won’t be smoothed over by any forced apologies. It’s been revealed by several news organizations that Floyd Landis, a form…
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Does Recent HSBC Settlement Mean Banks Are Now "Too Big To Indict"?
January 17th, 2013
Recent news involving a massive fine leveled against HSBC might, at first glance, appear to be a good thing. After all, $1.9 billion in penalties against a major international financial conglomerate over an international money laundering scandal migh…
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Categories: Whistleblower Protection
Whistleblower Protection Legislation Signed by President Obama
January 10th, 2013
A vote late last month by the Senate cleared the way for final approval of legislation meant to strengthen legal protections for federal whistleblowers. Finally, this week, President Barack Obama signed S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancemen…
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Wal-Mart Accused of Violating Minimum Wage Laws in Recent Suit
January 3rd, 2013
A new lawsuit accused Wal-Mart Stores and two cooperating staffing agencies of forcing temporary employees to show up early for work, stay late, and work through lunch. The suit further alleges that the staffing agencies, Labor Ready-Midwest Inc. and…
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New FCPA Guidelines Unveiled
December 6th, 2012
As we’ve discussed before, complying with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act can be a major headache for U.S. businesses with large international practices. Given those headaches, it has come as welcome news to many that a new guide to the…
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Categories: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: High Cost of Corrupt Practices
November 1st, 2012
According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, settlements with the government are not the only cost corporations must account for if they decide to engage in illegal bribery of foreign officials. The newspaper found that legal expenses for…
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Categories: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Olive Garden/Red Lobster Parent Company Sued for Labor Law Violations
November 1st, 2012
According to a recent lawsuit, Darden Restaurants, the company behind the success of restaurants such as Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille and Red Lobster, violated federal labor laws by underpaying thousands of servers across the…
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The DOJ's Bad Deal with a Tax-Evading Swiss Bank - Part II
October 25th, 2012
When we left off last time it was 2010. Bradley Birkenfeld, the UBS whistleblower, had been sentenced to 40 months in prison for tax evasion and the DOJ had just let UBS off the hook after the bank revealed information on a tiny fraction of the total…
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The DOJ's Bad Deal with a Tax-Evading Swiss Bank - Part I
October 18th, 2012
This is the first part in a two part series of posts explaining the saga of an IRS whistleblower from UBS who spent years fighting his former employer before recently receiving a major reward for all his trouble. To start the story, let’s go ba…
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