Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers
Advocates, Government Officials File Supreme Court Briefs Supporting UBS Whistleblower
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower case with widespread implications for the ability of whistleblowers to seek anti-retaliation protections under federal whistleblower laws. Since the Court granted certiorari in the case, whistleblower...
Report: Whistleblowers could help expose auditing fraud at publicly traded companies
Whistleblowers would be protected and rewarded for exposing accounting misdeeds under a bill scheduled for a vote in the House this week. The bill would attach a whistleblower protection provision to rules governing the the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)...
CFTC Makes Fourth Whistleblower Award
July 27, 2016. Washington, D.C. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced yesterday that it had made its fourth award to a whistleblower as part of the Commission’s Whistleblower Program created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
OSHA Finalizes Whistleblower Retaliation Complaint Procedures Under Sarbanes-Oxley
On March 6, 2015, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a final rule finalizing procedures for handling whistleblower retaliation complaints filed under Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Sox Act contains significant protections for corporate whistleblowers....
Halliburton Revealing Whistleblower’s Identity to Colleagues is Adverse Action
On November 12, 2014, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board (ARB) ruling against Halliburton for its retaliation against a whistleblower. In 2005, Anthony Menendez, an employee of Halliburton, used the company’s...
Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury’s suffering to expose big pharma’s abuse
Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen...
Whistleblowers Spur $1.5 Billion Off-Label Marketing Settlement
Whistleblowers have succeeded in a $1.5 billion off-label marketing case against Abbott Laboratories Inc., the Department of Justice announced today. Combined, the $700 million criminal fines and $800 million civil fines are the second largest government recovery from a drug...
Sylvester wins at ARB in a victory for all whistleblowers
On May 25, 2011, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a major decision in favor of whistleblowers. In Sylvester v. Parexel International, ARB Case No. 07-123 (ARB May 25, 2011), the ARB held that a whistleblower only...
ARB holds first oral argument in a SOX case
Today the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held its first oral argument in a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Last November, the ARB gave notice of today's oral argument, and invited interested groups to submit friend-of-the-court (or...
Obama Signs Landmark Whistleblower Protections in Food Safety Act
Today, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2571), which contains landmark whistleblower protections for food safety employees. Highlights of the Food Safety Whistleblower Provision: Covers all employers "engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transportation, distribution,...
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