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Defense firm warns federal contractors about FCA amendments in Healthcare Law
The law firm of Gibson Dunn represents companies when they are accused of defrauding the government. They have now posted to their web page an article that warns federal contractors about the new liabilities they face as a result of...
DOJ Demonstrates “Chutzpah”
As NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn responded, the "DOJ spends much ink describing the importance of the UBS case without finding the space to add two more words - the name of the whistleblower who made it all possible...
WikiLeaks.org releases 2007 video of US troops killing 2 Reuters journalists
WikiLeaks.org has released an 18 minute video that shows United States armed forces in Iraq attacking a group that included two journalists from Reuters. The journalists, and about ten other civilians, were fatally injured in the 2007 attack. National Public...
ACLU of Ohio calls on University of Akron to keep whistleblowing professor
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio issued a press release today calling on the University of Akron to retain Professor Matt Williams. Prof. Williams resigned his adjunct position last October to protest the university's policy of collecting a...
Water quality whistleblower sues in Chicago
Anthony Sacco is the former general manager of the Broadview-Westchester Joint Water Agency, which supplies drinking water to suburbs west of Chicago. Then he reported to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that the Agency had fabricated water testing reports. According...
Scientists raise concerns about radiation risk of CT scans
Several media sources are reporting on concerns raised by scientists about the radiation dangers of CT scans. CT scans delivers the radiation exposure of about 400 chest x-rays. Their popularity for colon cancer screening and other diagnoses has increased the...
Amy Stroupe wins reinstatement to BB&T!
I reported here last September about Amy Stroupe's whistleblower hearing against BB&T bank. While working as an investigator for the bank, she uncovered a $20 million ponzi scheme. A bank official and some developers used a phony land development to...
Birkenfeld Featured in World Policy Journal’s “Crime + Corruption” Issue
An article written by Bradley Birkenfeld appears in the Spring 2010 issue of World Policy Journal. The "Crime + Corruption" issue examines how corruption occurs, its effect on society, and how to stop it. Birkenfeld's article, "Inside the Cartel," is...
NWC Seminar on Whistleblowers and the Media available on C-SPAN
C-SPAN aired today's National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) seminar on Whistleblowers, Lawyers and the Media. It is available on C-SPAN online. The seminar features insights about some of the most famous whistleblower cases in the media, and general comments about what...
Judge Raises Red Flag on State Secrets Abuse
On Tuesday, a District Court judge in Washington criticized the federal government for invoking the state secrets privilege in a case in which a DEA agent claimed to have been illegally wiretapped by the CIA. The "state secrets" defense restricts...
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