Corporate

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the Philippine Bureau of Customs has filed charges that Oillink, an import company, cheated the government out of 700 million Philippine pesos (16 million US dollars). The Bureau of Customs discovered the fraud through...

On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) can protect corporate whistleblowers who make disclosures through the media. We filed the brief with the...

The initial premise of the new Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg movie is that when the real action hero cops (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) fall flat, then the New York Police Unit will have...

60 minutes will re-air their piece on UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld tonight. Please tune in to watch at 7:00 pm EST then Take Action by sending a letter in support of Mr. Birkenfeld's clemency petition.   https://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf

The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has released eleven (11) decisions issued in July, four (4) of which address substantive law.  That is down from seven (7) substantive decisions issued in July 2009. At this rate, it will...

Last week, the California Supreme Court issued a blunt decision decrying the way that employers and too many lower court abuse summary judgment to prevent employees from getting their cases to a jury.  The case is Reid v. Google, Inc.,...

The Ethics Resource Center has just released a report from its 2009 National Business Ethics Survey. The report, called "Retaliation: The Cost to Your Company and Its Employees," documents how companies that tolerate retaliation suffer increased levels of employee misconduct....

These provisions are designed to encourage private employees to report fraud. However, for all the good provisions in the bill, Congress still left out an important piece of the puzzle. They failed to include protection for federal employees.

According to Reuters, whistleblower, Ralph Fabiano, sued German pharmaceutical manufacturing company, BAYER AG. Fabiano alleges that he was terminated from his position at the company for refusal to alter the results of particular auditing and accounting tests required under the...

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision this week that local government officials can be held liable for accusations they make against  citizens when it is "reasonably foreseeable" that their statements will cause the citizen to be...