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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that criticizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for dragging its feet in processing whistleblower claims. The report follows up on TIGTA's 2009 report and found, "deficiencies in the IRS’s...

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of whistleblower Michael Davis and overturned the limitation of that Court's decision in United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees’ Club,...

Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require...

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...

In two landmark decisions last week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) held that it does have the authority to enforce the procedural protections for federal employees who suffer adverse employment actions as a result of issues with their...

Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government...

Today, Independent Science News published an article by William Sanjour, an EPA whistleblower and NWC Board Member. In "Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work," Mr. Sanjour uses his 30 years of experience at the EPA to not only...

The City of Chicago Ethics Task Force released a report today that recommends that the City strengthen protections for whistleblowers.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed the Task Force to improve the City's notorious record on ethics. Cindy Canary of the Illinois...

Yesterday, the Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill called the "Whistleblower's Protection Act," H.B. 2099. This bill is actually an attempt to weaken the protections Missouri courts already afford to whistleblowers.  Like courts in most states, Missouri courts recognize...

We may be much closer to living in an Orwellian state than many think, suggests William Binney, a National Security Agency whistleblower. In his first interview since he quit his job because of the domestic surveillance program, he sat down...