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National Security Teleconference Underway
The National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund's teleconference on National Security Whistleblowers is underway. Shown here are Sibel Edmonds of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, David Colapinto, General Counsel...
Whistleblowing: A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?
I have received calls and emails asking why the NWC supports UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. This article published on Forbes.com helps answer that question. Mr. Birkenfeld, like countless other employees, blew the whistle because he believed it was the right...
Upcoming Training Seminar to Focus on National Security
The information that will be covered is valuable to any national security whistleblowers, anyone who represents these clients in their practice, or any advocate dedicated to preserving the rights of national security employees.
Indonesian activists suffer police investigation
My counterpart in Indonesia, Emerson Yuntho, has been swept up in a flurry of police activity associated with the Third Conference of State Parties (CoSP) of the United Nation Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). I just met Emerson last month when...
International Whistleblower News (November 23, 2009)
MacCharles, Tonda, Richard Colvin: Portrait of a whistleblower, theStar.com, November 21, 2009. Talk to people who know Richard Colvin and a few key traits emerge. Driven, committed to Canada's mission in Afghanistan. Knows his stuff. Takes copious notes. Sociable, yet...
International Whistleblower News (November 16, 2009)
Develin, Kate, “NHS whistleblower ‘sacked for revealing dumped x-ray scans’,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 14, 2009. Dr Otto Chan, a consultant radiologist, believes that he was labelled a troublemaker after the revelations about the Royal London. He claims that hospital bosses decided...
CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vacating Judge’s decision
The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who...
International Whistleblower News (November 9, 2009)
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...
International Whistleblower News (November 3, 2009)
“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...
The Next Big Thing In False Claims Act Litigation
"Securities fraud," said the state official and with that about 20 attorneys, all experts in False Claims Act litigation, fell off their chairs.
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