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Many companies that violate the law try to keep their employees from having the ability to prove those violations of the law. The impose rules that prohibit employees from taking company documents home, or disclosing them to anyone (even courts...

The Charlotte Business Journal interviewed Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, for an article released today. The article examines how more and more banks are adopting whistleblower programs through which employees can raise compliance concerns. Why?...

After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not be approved in its current form. We urge the House of Representatives to...

Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), S. 510. It passed with strong bipartisan support.  The final vote was 73 to 25. My friend Jason Zuckerman has written a detailed analysis of FSMA's new whistleblower...

Charlotte Yee worked for the U.S. Department of Labor for twenty (20) years. During her last five years, she served as a manager and a whistleblower against waste, fraud and discrimination.  She was physically attacked by her boss and eventually...

Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called on President Barack Obama to pardon tax whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. "In addition to a turkey, Obama should pardon a whistleblower...

Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for his son to be released from prison.

On November 19, 2010, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) hosted a visit by Middle Eastern officials as part of the State Department's Transparency in Government project for the Near East. The program offered a view of the role of citizens,...

The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12,  features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA), HR 2067 and S 1580.  I appreciate the way that the editors enlarged this quote on their letters page: ...

The Wham-O company, maker of the Frisbee, is arguing to a federal appeals court that a qui tam provision in patent law is unconstitutional.  Wham-O's lawyer, Andrew Dhuey, told Law.com that the patent law, 35 U.S.C. § 292, violates the...