Exclusives

This is part of a series of WNN exclusives on whistleblower awards paid out by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to wildlife whistleblowers. From late 2019 through 2022, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued twenty-one whistleblower...

This article is the second in the WNN series investigating FOIA documents from the SEC about the agency's whistleblower program. The first article outlined Big Law’s newfound involvement in the SEC program. Read it here. In response to a Freedom...

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveal that large “Big Law” corporate law firms are confidentially or quietly representing whistleblowers in whistleblower reward cases filed under the highly successful...

This article is the third in the WNN series investigating FOIA documents from the SEC about the agency’s whistleblower program. The first article outlined Big Law’s newfound involvement in the SEC program and the second explained how the SEC data...

At 5:30pm on Thursday the 5th, pharmaceutical lobbyists launched a backchannel blitzkrieg against the False Claims Amendments Act, an amendment that had already gone through multiple stages of committee comment and approval. Over the next few days, pharma lobbyists and...

In September of 2020, data scientist Sophie Zhang posted an internal farewell memo after being fired from Facebook. Her memo, first reported on by BuzzFeed News, detailed what she found online while working on the “Facebook Site Integrity fake engagement...

Washington, D.C.  March 19, 2021. Mr. Gary Gensler, President Biden’s nominee to be Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), committed to strongly supporting whistleblowers who file cases under the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower reward law. In a series...

On March 12, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Gary Gensler, President Biden’s nominee to be the next Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the letter, Senator Grassley, a longtime champion of whistleblowers, expresses...

Whistleblower Network News (WNN) has filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to Secretary Buttigieg and the Office of the Secretary of Transportation requesting communications between the Department of Transportation (DOT) and automobile industry lobbyists. As WNN previously reported,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s latest rules and regulations on whistleblower rewards are for the first time being made publicly available by Whistleblower Network News. WNN became aware that Fish and Wildlife amended their whistleblower reward regulations in response...