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After decades of apathy, Europe in the past year passed its first region-wide whistleblower law, saw more than a dozen countries take action to strengthen whistleblower rights, and earnestly began to protect and compensate citizens who report crime and corruption....

On September 23, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved changes to its highly successful whistleblower program.  On September 25, whistleblower attorneys Stephen M. Kohn and Siri Nelson, of the qui tam firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, wrote the...

On September 23, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to approve rule changes to its highly successful whistleblower program.  The rule changes are wide-ranging, and there are notable differences between the final rule changes and those originally...

Benedek Jávor is a fighter. A fighter for knowledge, for democracy, for the environment, for his country, and for the rights of all people. Jávor attended the 1,000-year-old Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma in Hungary, one of the oldest continuously...

Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved rule changes to its highly successful whistleblower program in a 3-2 vote.  After the changes were first proposed in 2018, whistleblower advocates were vocal in opposing a number of the changes...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to vote on controversial proposed rules to their highly successful whistleblower program at 10 a.m. on September 23, 2020. FOLLOW THE LIVE MEETING For more information on the implications of the vote,...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. on September 23 to vote on proposed amendments to its highly successful whistleblower program.  Whistleblower advocates warn that, if approved as originally written, a number of...

For the second time in less than one year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cancelled a scheduled vote on proposed rules that would restructure its Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) whistleblower reward program.  Hanging in the balance is the future...

Reality Leigh Winner (inmate number 22056-021) is currently incarcerated at the Carswell Federal Medical Center, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, Texas, 76127.  She is an Air Force veteran, and later, became a federal NSA contractor.  Winner disclosed to the Intercept,...

In spring of last year, Mislav Kotarac went public with allegations of widespread corruption and misconduct within Croatia’s Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection Fund. He had repeatedly told Croatian authorities – to no avail – about fraud, abuse of authority,...