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SEC settles with whistleblower Aguirre for $755,000
The New York Times reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to pay $755,000 to settle a whistleblower claim by its former attorney Gary Aguirre. Aguirre had been investigating insider trading by Pequot Capital Management and its...
Indonesian official Budi Suharto visits NWC
Budi Suharto (right in photo) visited me at the National Whistleblowers Center today. Mr. Suharto is the Head of Bilateral Cooperation II Section of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. We discussed how in both the United...
SOX whistleblower provision survives Supreme Court decision
Today the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, held that one provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is unconstitutional. However, it also held that this one provision is "severable" so that the other provisions of SOX, including the whistleblower protection,...
Wall Street Reform Bill Includes Whistleblower Protections
The Wall Street Reform bill, recently reported out of conference, includes a number of provisions designed to protect employees who report fraud in the commodity and stock exchanges. The bill includes two qui tam provisions that protect whistleblowers who disclose...
Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith speaks about policy
Patricia Smith (pictured at the podium) is now finally confirmed as the Solicitor of Labor, the official legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Labor. On June 25, 2010, she spoke to the annual convention of the National Employment Lawyers...
ARB conducts stakeholders’ meeting on proposed rules
The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held a public meeting today to hear from stakeholders about the how it might craft rules of practice. Last Friday, the ARB released a preliminary draft of its proposed Rules of Practice...
Whistleblower Disclosures Result in Historic International Treaty
n an unprecedented move the Swiss parliament voted to approve a deal between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and UBS in which UBS has agreed to turn over the names of 4,450 U.S. citizens who held secret and illegal bank...
Supreme Court allows government to read employee text messages
The United States Supreme Court has today reversed a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had protected a public employee's expectation of privacy in pager text messages. The case is City of Ontario, California v. Quon, No....
Egyptian police kill whistleblower at internet cafe
Khaled Said posted video to the internet that showed police officers in Egypt sharing profits from a drug deal. On Monday, Neal Ungerleider of True/Slant has posted a translation of Arabic-language article from Al-Shorouk. The article describes how two informants...
Sun Block for Whistleblowers?
On the Daily Show last night, following President Obama's Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart delivered a monologue addressing the president's record on civil liberties and executive power. Stewart plays a number of clips of President Obama from the campaign trail,...
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