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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… Read More

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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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Report Reveals Information Concerning Pharmaceutical Fraud Cases

October 11th, 2012

For the past several years news of multi-million dollar settlements between pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. government have frequently made front-page news. A new report by a consumer watchdog group, Public Citizen, breaks down the data concern… Read More

Expanding Whistleblower Protections

May 31st, 2012

While employees of the federal government always have protections in place should they become whistleblowers, federal contract employees are not so fortunate. However, Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has proposed legislation to change that. Senate B… Read More

Primer on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

May 3rd, 2012

What Is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 was passed in response to scandals in the mid 1970s that exposed over 400 U.S. companies that had been making payments to foreign government officials to facilitate… Read More

New SEC Whistleblower Office Helps Foster Uptick in Whistleblower Activity

October 6th, 2011

The new Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower opened on August 12, 2011. The new office is responsible for fielding tips received from whistleblowers, enforcing SEC rules and supporting the SEC in determining awards f… Read More

SEC Rules in Effect for Whistleblowers

August 25th, 2011

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established a whistleblower program to be adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Specifically, section 922 of the Dodd-Frank act amended the Securities Exchange Act of 19… Read More

Federal Whistleblower Wins Settlement after Exposing Government Contractor in Iraq

July 28th, 2011

A federal whistleblower, Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse, has just won a major victory with the U.S. District Court in Washington. On Monday, July 25th, the court approved an award to Greenhouse in the amount of $970,000, which represents fu… Read More

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