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Former SEC Attorneys Express Concern About Reported Change to Investigative Authority at Commission
On February 12, 2025, a group of former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attorneys sent a letter to the current members of the SEC and the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus expressing concern about reports that the SEC has changed the...
Boeing Whistleblower Continues to Advocate for Airline Safety
After repeatedly raising concerns about safety issues in the manufacturing of 737 Max airplanes, Boeing whistleblower Ed Pierson retired from his management position and founded the airline safety advocacy organization The Foundation for Aviation Safety. Pierson is the most recent...
New Report Emphasizes Importance of SEC Whistleblower Program in Light of Potential Staffing Issues
“By any measure, the SEC’s whistleblower program has been a resounding success,” according to a newly released report by Better Markets. The report, The SEC’s Whistleblower Program Is Key to Protecting the Economy and Main Street Americans’ Wallets, details the...
SEC Penalizes Investment Adviser Two Sigma for Impeding Whistleblowing
On January 16, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against New York-based investment advisers Two Sigma Investments LP and Two Sigma Advisers LP. Two Sigma agreed to pay $90 million in civil penalties to settle the...
Whistleblower Petitions Supreme Court to Review Retaliation Case Involving Mandatory Arbitration
Daniel Peterson, a former sales representative at Minerva Surgical Inc. who blew the whistle on a defective surgical device sold by the company, is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his appeal of an arbitration award given to...
Treasury Nominee Bessent Affirms Support for IRS Whistleblower Program
On January 16, the Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary. During his confirmation hearing, Bessent affirmed his support for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)...
Ex-New Jersey Superintendent Gets $645K to in Whistleblower Lawsuit Settlement
Robert Zywicki, former superintendent of the Mount Olive Board of Education in Morris County New Jersey, is set to receive $645,000 in a settlement resolving whistleblower retaliation allegations, NJ.com reports. Zywicki, who served as superintendent from 2018 to 2023, filed...
Decision in IRS Whistleblower Case A Mixed Bag According to Advocates
On January 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released a decision in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower case Lissack v. Commissioner. The case had drawn the attention of whistleblower advocates who assessed the...
Report Details FAA’s “Overwhelmed System” for Airline Safety Whistleblowers
A recent Seattle Times report into the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) handling of whistleblower complaints details “an overwhelmed system delivering underwhelming results for whistleblowers.” In response to the slew of highly publicized whistleblower allegations against Boeing in 2024, the Seattle...
Death of OpenAI Whistleblower Increases Scrutiny of AI Whistleblower Protections
In December, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who blew the whistle on alleged copyright violations by the company, was found dead in his apartment. His death was ruled a suicide, but family members and others have raised the possibility...
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