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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 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...

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...

Last Wednesday, Robert Mueller, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing.  Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) used the opportunity to question Dir. Mueller about how the administration's proposed whistleblower bill (S....

Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), is in Montenegro this week calling for enactment of whistleblower protections as a key component of transparency. Kohn is traveling to Montenegro under the auspices of the U.S. Department...

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has rejected employer attempts to constrict the whistleblower protections of the federal and District of Columbia False Claims Acts.  In a decision issued last week, she corrected a judgment from a jury verdict, and overruled...

San Francisco attorney Cliff Palefsky testified on Tuesday about the need for legislation to protect workers from losing their right to trial by jury through employer-imposed pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements.  Palefsky testified to the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of...

Michael D. Kohn, President of the National Whistleblowers Center, is attending the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Symposium this week in Seoul, South Korea. According to an article in today's The Korea Times, the symposium is co-hosted by Korea's Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights...

The Mid-Hudson News reports that Ulster County, New York, has now adopted a Whistleblower Employee/Agent Protection  Policy. The report says that the policy will protect employees of the county and its contractors.  One proponent of the policy was County Comptroller Elliott...

A child welfare employee has won a million dollar jury verdict in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to the Miami Herald.  Gerolyn Shapiro says that she was fired because her testimony pointed to the negligence of another county employee.  Shapiro had...