Government

On February 23, Representative Gerald Connolly (D-VA) introduced the Merit Systems Protection Board Empowerment Act of 2021. The bill, which is endorsed by the National Whistleblower Center, reauthorizes the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) through 2026. It also requires administrative...

On February 11, Whistleblower Network News made the whistleblower reward regulations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) publicly available for the first time. Following WNN’s publication, whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn wrote an analysis of the rules for...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a public memorandum warning of a serious “systemic issue” in the DOJ. The February 10 memo claims that the DOJ has failed to ensure that federal...

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is launching an investigation into whistleblower allegations of misconduct at a COVID-19 testing laboratory, according to a February 10 AP News article.  The allegations, which were revealed by Sacramento-based news outlet CBS13 on...

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...

On February 5, a group of senior Democrats in the United States House of Representatives reintroduced The Rights for the Transportation Security Administration Workforce Act. The Act would extend the federal workplace rights of Title 5 of the U.S. Code,...

Whistleblowers allege that a range of misconduct — unqualified lab techs conducting COVID-19 tests and being inattentive during the testing procedures, COVID-19 test swabs ending up on the bathroom floor — has transpired at the recently built $25 million California...

On February 4, leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn had an article published by JD Supra entitled “Loopholes Doom Money Laundering Anti-Retaliation Law.” The article denounces the recently passed Anti-Money Laundering Act (AML Act), which contains loopholes that whistleblower advocates...

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiry made on behalf of Whistleblower Network News (WNN) has revealed the shortcomings of the whistleblower protections in the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). Documents released by the U.S. Department of...

Representatives Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced the COVID-19 Whistleblower Protection Act to the 1st session of the 117th Congress on February 4, 2021. The Act is updated from H.R. 7227, a bill...