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NWLDEF to Host Training Seminar April 1, 2010
NWLDEF will host a training seminar titled "Lawyers and the Media: Strategies that Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in Whistleblower Cases." This training will take place on April 1, 2010 from 12 - 2 pm EST at the National Whistleblowers...
Judge approves $3 million settlement of CIA deception case
I previously wrote here about the extraordinary findings of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth in Horn v. Huddle. Judge Lamberth found that officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including Director George Tenet and an agency attorney, made...
Graham County wins again, but new healthcare law blunts the effect
Today the U.S. Supreme Court handed another victory to the Graham County Soil and Water Conservation District, dealing a setback to whistleblower Karen Wilson's lawsuit. In the 7-2 decision, the high court agreed with the fraudsters that their own internal...
Stephen M. Kohn breaks down S. 372 on Boiling Frogs Post
Last week, Stephen M. Kohn was invited by Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post to debate Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform on the controversial "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act" (S. 372). In Mr. Eisen's...
Fred Whitehurst converses on his legacy at the FBI lab
Fred Whitehurst is the whistleblower who revealed that the crime lab at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to live up to its reputation for scientific integrity, and sometimes even resorted to falsifying results. Today Jeff Stein of the...
Maryland Senate passes watered-down state False Health Claims Act
The Maryland Senate yesterday passed a state version of the False Claims Act (FCA) by a vote of 37 in favor and 8 against. Before passing this bill, however, the Senate watered it down with an amendment. The Maryland False...
Whistleblower complaint prompts DaimlerChrysler to pay $185 million
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that DaimlerChrysler and U.S. government attorneys have reached an agreement in which the company will pay $185 million to settle charges that it paid bribes to foreign officials to obtain at least $50 million...
RCG dialysis company pilfered $19.4 million
A federal judge in Tennessee has found that a dialysis company bilked the federal government out of $19.4 million. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. issued the order against Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius...
University of Chicago researcher finds whistleblowers are best detectors of fraud
Two years ago, this blog reported on a study by a University of Chicago researcher that finds employee whistleblowers detect more corporate fraud than any source of detection. Now Dallas News columnist Will Deener has reviewed the same research by...
Health Care Bill Enhances Whistleblower Protections
As part of the anti-fraud provisions of the health care legislation passed yesterday, Congress strengthened the False Claims Act - one of the most effective whistleblower laws in the United States - in order to ensure that whistleblowers can expose...
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