California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (pictured; D-La Cañada Flintridge) has won committee approval for his bill to give employees in the Legislature the same protections afforded to other state workers when they report waste, fraud and abuse. Assembly Bill 1378 will...
Truthout reporter Jason Leopold is reporting today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released five pages of a PowerPoint presentation that describe a previously unknown program of "blackballing" records that would not be disclosed in response to requests under...
This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a major decision holding that employees have an inalienable right to bring collective and class action lawsuits. The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and...
By a 3-2 vote on a major case, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has limited the application of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower protection outside the boundaries of the United States. The case is Villanueva v. Core...
Originally Published by FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog Author: Thomas Fox The holiday season is past and many of us have returned to work. However, if you are a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) there is a gift that you may...
Last week, a House Subcommittee "marked-up" a bill that would seriously undercut the strength of the whistleblower protections in the Dodd-Frank Act. This Subcommittee is the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee. Their...
The newly created federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a call to whistleblowers. The CFPB is seeking "knowledgeable sources with information about potential violations of Federal consumer financial laws." They can submit their information by email to whistleblower@cfpb.gov,...
In a landmark ruling in favor of corporate whistleblowers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit gave the green light to Michael DeGuelle's RICO claim of retaliation. The court's opinion gives life to a provision in the 2002...
Mary Schroeder worked for the Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union (GNOFCU) as manager of the collections, lending and call center departments. On June 19, 2008, after two years with GNOFCU, Schroeder made a fateful call to the National Credit...
I had the pleasure today of interviewing Donna Boehme about the impact Dodd-Frank has had on corporate compliance programs. Our discussion about creating a corporate culture open to employee reports led to an interesting case detailed in her recently published...
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