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Humphries, Conor, “Russia fires police YouTube whistleblower,” Reuters, November 8, 2009. A junior Russian policeman was fired on Sunday after making a YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accusing senior officers of corruption, a claim dismissed by authorities as...

  “Prosecutors looking for ways to contact whistleblower,” Today’s Zaman, November 3, 2009. Prosecutors conducting a probe into a clandestine group known as Ergenekon are searching for a way to reach a military officer who mailed the original copy of...

"Securities fraud," said the state official and with that about 20 attorneys, all experts in False Claims Act litigation, fell off their chairs.

Robert MacLean is the former U.S. Air Marshal who blew the whistle on a Bush Administration budget plan to shut down the Air Marshal program -- just as a terror alert went out. His public hearing before the Merit System...

  On October 20, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a Paris-based international non-governmental journalism organization that advocates freedom of the press, published Press Freedom Index 2009, its eighth annual world press freedom catalogue. According to the report, Denmark, Finland, Ireland,...

Mr. Colin Browne worked as a program advisor for the UDC Career Counseling and Development Center. Throughout his term, he discovered many flaws within the system. For example, Kevin Naiker, the former Director of UDC’s “Team 100” retention program, and...

On October 14, the Washington Post ran a story on Metro drivers going "Strictly by the Book" (p. B-1). The story highlights safety issues that reach beyond Metro. That the Post's writer would be concerned about the disruption reveals a...

Tsin, Yip Ai, “Whistleblower Act wins TI-M approval,” Malaysiakini, October 26, 2009. Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) has lauded the proposed Whistleblower Act, which will provide immunity to informants against civil or criminal action. "By putting in place the...

Whistleblowers who open the door on offshore accounts are not only exposing tax evasion but also the criminals involved in human trafficking,terrorism, drugs and bribery. The Department of Justice needs to immediately review the negative ramifications of prosecuting individuals who...

A reporter from World Radio Switzerland recently interviewed Stephen Kohn on Bradley Birkenfeld, the Swiss banker who blew the whistle on secret offshore accounts.