Corporate

Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), spoke today with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about the forty-month sentence handed down to the UBS whistleblower, Bradley Birkenfeld. turned over the banking information that has...

Attorney Dan Hurson used to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This week he cheered for the whistleblower provision in President Obama's proposal to overhaul our regulations of financial markets.  "This may be the beginning of the golden...

On Wednesday, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, House and Senate leaders hammered out a deal to pass the economic stimulus bill. Both the original House and Senate versions of this bill included protections for employee whistleblowers. By Wednesday evening,...

When whistleblowers win their cases, it is often years after they got fired.  When a judge adds up all the years of back pay, the whistleblower will then have to pay taxes from a higher tax bracket. Whistleblowers can end...

If you haven't noticed, we have been really focused on passing stronger whistleblower laws in the economic stimulus bill. We had a major success when the bill passed the House of Representatives, and now we are moving on to the...

The Washington Independent published an article addressing the lack of protection offered to whistleblowers in the stimulus bill.  The article quoted Stephen Kohn, who states: "The biggest defect in the current language in the House and Senate versions, is about blowing the whistle...

A leading global risk-management company, Kroll, Inc., has issued a new report finding that one of the unfortunate byproducts of our current global financial crisis will be an uptick in white collar crimes, particularly corporate fraud. As the Kroll report...

The dawning of a new administration is upon us, and with it comes an opportunity for whistleblower rights supporters to make their voices heard, and to achieve real changes to our ineffective whistleblower laws. Over the past couple of years,...

A few federal judges have been reluctant to follow a provision in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) law that allows corporate fraud whistleblowers to have a de novo trial in federal court. One judge in Maryland ordered a SOX case back...

The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed an administrative appeal decision that leaves corporate whistleblower Stacy Platone out in the cold.  The December 3, 2008, opinion affirms a decision of the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board...