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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into claims made by a whistleblower concerning international mining conglomerate Rio Tinto.  According to reporting by the Financial Times, the SEC has not announced an investigation. They are examining allegations that Rio Tinto...

On July 29, former D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) general counsel Chelsea Andrews filed a whistleblower lawsuit against DCHA Director Tyrone Garrett. The lawsuit alleges that she was fired for questioning the procurement and legitimacy of KN95 masks that DCHA purchased...

On September 4, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a whistleblower award issued to an individual whose tip exposed ongoing fraud.  The whistleblower’s tip led the CFTC to open an investigation into ongoing fraudulent activity, and the whistleblower’s...

Howard Wilkinson, the whistleblower who reported the largest money laundering operation ever uncovered, has been nominated for the Allard Prize, a prestigious human rights and anti-corruption award. The Allard Prize is given annually to an individual or organization that “has...

The list of human rights abuses allegedly committed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers continues to grow.  A whistleblower complaint filed on September 14 alleges widespread medical neglect at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia. ...

On August 28, a group of international whistleblower experts, including whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC), Whistleblowing International, and the European Center for Whistleblower Rights, submitted a memorandum to government officials in Finland, providing...

A New Jersey medical records company settled a qui tam whistleblower complaint with the U.S. government. Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. (KMHA) agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve claims that its former subsidiary Viztek LLC (Viztek), misrepresented the capabilities of...

On September 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not retaliate against a former employee.  The court ruling upholds a decision from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. on September 23 to vote on proposed amendments to its highly successful whistleblower program.  Whistleblower advocates warn that, if approved as originally written, a number of...

On July 28, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged VALIC Financial Advisors Inc. (VFA) in two separate actions that were both related to VFA’s failures to disclose practices that generated millions of dollars in fees and other financial...