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Whistleblower Film Festival opens this Thursday
The first ever Whistleblower Film Festival is opening this Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:30 pm at the Capitol Visitors Center; 1st Street and East Capitol Street, NE. The first film will be The Pentagon Wars. The film is free and...
Special Conference Call for Attorneys Wednesday September 30th
In response to the many requests from our Attorney Referral Service (ARS) members and non-members looking for advice on whistleblower protection cases, the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund will hold a two-hour telephone conference call on Wednesday September...
Translator can sue under Bivens for retaliatory termination
Even federal agencies use independent contractors and skirt the protections provided to "employees." This month, a federal judge in Washington, DC, held that a former translator can sue the Voice of America officials who terminated her contract after she made...
Federal water agency fires top lawyer for whistleblowing
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) reports that it has filed briefs for Robert McCarthy, the former General Counsel for the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC). PEER says that USIBWC fired McCarthy on July 31, 2009...
Transparency International issues 2009 Global Corruption Report
Transparency International (TI) today released its 2009 Global Corruption Report: Corruption and the Private Sector (GCR). TI finds that one out of five business executives report that they received a solicitation for a bribe. An equal number report that they...
“An Attack of Free Speech:” Florence Hartmann’s case from the Hague
On September 14, 2009, the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague ordered Florence Hartmann to pay a fine of 7,000 Euros for violating the court's confidentiality pledge. Florence Hartmann, a former journalist for the French...
BB&T whistleblower Amy Stroupe prepares for hearing
WCNC television news released a story last week about BB&T bank whistleblower Amy Stroupe. 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...
Sen. Reid calls for review of TSA whistleblowers’ cases
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and other politicians have called on the administration to review the cases of Robert MacLean and Spencer Pickard, according to a story in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal. Both MacLean and Pickard were fired by the Transportation...
The Informant! is not representative of whistleblowers, but it is an opportunity for dialogue
The Informant! is a new movie that plays the price-fixing crimes of ADM, and the embezzlement of whistleblower Mark Whitacre, for airy comedy. The original music track by Marvin Hamlisch gives an upbeat 1960's feel to this 1990's corporate crime...
Attorney David Colapinto speaks on ABC news about The Informant!
David Colapinto, General Counsel of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), spoke with ABC News correspondent Lindsey Ellerson in a story released today. Ellerson looked at how the new movie, The Informant!, sheds light on other more notable whistleblowers. Colapinto told...
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