Corporate

A growing trend in employer attempts to evade liability for discrimination is to find a manager with no record of discrimination and use that manager to be the official "decision maker" for firing the employee. Civil rights and whistleblower advocates...

The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case where whistleblower Joyce Quinlan is asking for reinstatement of her $10 million jury verdict. An appellate court had vacated the verdict finding that Curtiss-Wright was justified in firing...

Sherron Watkins became a Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2002 (with Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Coleen Rowley of the FBI) after blowing the whistle on Enron's house of cards. Now she has published a review of No...

Uganda's The New Vision reports that the country's Parliament is debating a Whistleblower Bill to protect disclosures of public and private corruption.  Legislators are debating whether protected disclosures should be made to regional officials or to national offices.  Perhaps someday...

This month, the Missouri Supreme Court recognized and defined a tort claim for whistleblowers. The Court explained that the traditional "employment-at-will" doctrine is not static, and may be changed to reflect public policy. In Fleschner v. Pepose Vision Institute, P.C.,...

A panel of whistleblowers will be discussing their own personal experiences and the importance of advocating for change. I cannot overstate the importance of citizen involvement in achieving meaningful protections for whistleblowers.

Albert D. Campbell worked for Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1995. He worked as a financial analyst, and was promoted in 1989 to chief of cost control for the $3.5 billion LANTIRN project. The LANTIRN project built navigation and targeting...

The LA Times reported last week on a series of trends in securities fraud. The $65 billion lost in the Madoff scandal highlights the huge losses millions of investors suffer as a result of corporate fraud.  Meanwhile, the new enforcement...

Basically, this means that 14,700 people walked away without prosecution under the IRS amnesty program, the head of entire illegal UBS program Martin Liechti was allowed to return to Switzerland without prosecution, the 4,450 tax cheats are likely to escape...

Leading national and international anti-corruption groups have joined the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) in a clemency campaign on behalf of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. In an open letter President Barack Obama, the groups request a presidential pardon for Mr. Birkenfeld,...