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Satish Shetty — who exposed many land scams in Maharashtra, India — was stabbed to death with swords on Wednesday during is morning walk.  Shetty, age 38, was a "Right to Information" (RTI) activist who began exposing corrupt land deals...

Leading national and international anti-corruption groups have joined the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) in a clemency campaign on behalf of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. In an open letter President Barack Obama, the groups request a presidential pardon for Mr. Birkenfeld,...

A court in Rangoon, Burma, has sentenced two government employees to death for leaking information about official visits to North Korea and Russia. The Democratic Voice of Burma reports that Win Naing Kyaw and Thura Kyaw now face execution. The...

The California Court of Appeals for the Fourth Appellate District has ruled this week that a lower court erred, for the second time, in dismissing a lawsuit brought by David Ohton, a strength and conditioning coach at San Diego State...

UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld told a Wall Street Journal reporter that the government's decision to send him to jail arises from “a cover-up at the highest levels.” Brikenfeld noted how the UBS clients who actually cheated on their taxes got...

My friends at the Truck Safety Coalition provide the following information about public hearings on proposed new Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules. As part of the process of preparing for the new Hours of Service proposed rulemaking, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

Sullivan County, New York, has enacted a new law to protect county employees who blow the whistle, Mid-Hudson News reports.  Legislature Chairman Jonathan Rouis told the paper that, “There are a lot of protections afforded in the statute as it...

On the same day that UBS tax whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld had to report to federal prison, a Swiss court issued an order saying that FINMA, a Swiss regulatory agency, erred in ordering UBS to turn over information about 300 clients....

Speaking on the Diane Rehm Show today, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said that the agency's amnesty program for US citizens who hid their assets in off-shore accounts brought in "billions" of dollars. That program, of course, was prompted by the...

Professors Kevin Clermont and Stewart Schwab have published a study of how employees fare when they bring employment law claims in federal court. In Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse? which is to be published in...