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The Washington Post is reporting that Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate have reached a compromise on legislation to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This essentially ensures that the legislation (S.2045) will pass the Senate within the...

In a recent University of Chicago study, researchers determined (again) that whistleblowers are the best tool for fighting corporate fraud. One unfortunate, but not surprising, finding was that  of whistleblowers whose identity was revealed, 82% of them were either forced...

Today we learned that the U.S. Government will receive a 30 day extension from the U.S. Supreme Court to file their reply brief in Murphy v. IRS (More on Murphy v. IRS here).  This is the Solicitor's second 30 day...

On January 25, 2008, The DOJ issued it's responses to questions posed to former AG Gonzales by the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 24, 2007. Several of these questions dealt with how the DOJ  handles False Claims Act investigations (those...

This week, President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (HR. 4986). Section 846 of this bill is a provision designed to protect employees of defense contractors when they report fraud to Congress, an Inspector General,...

By: Jane Turner I find that the most amazing part of being an FBI whistleblower is watching while FBI managers who are directly involved in misconduct, malfeasance, obstruction, or criminal activity--which whistleblowers bring to light--are rewarded, promoted, and/or given bonuses....

  By: Jane Turner The world of federal whistleblowers is a very small one. I have met Sibel Edmonds, and others who qualified for the whistleblower title. Colleen Rowley was in two of the same FBI offices that I was...

      By: Jane Turner It is interesting that people think the whistleblowing ordeal is over once a whistleblower has been exonerated. It is never over. A whistleblower’s career is shattered, and the tag of "troublemaker", "unpatriotic", "snitch" or...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Whistleblower Protection Blog is proud to present an ongoing series of blog posts by FBI whistleblower Jane Turner. Ms. Turner was a highly respected FBI Agent for 25 years. She worked the "indian country" of South Dakota and specialized in child-crimes,...

Briefs were filed yesterday in the Supreme Court case Allison Engine Co., Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sanders (Docket no. 07-214). This case will decide whether corporations and individuals who receive government contracts are legally required by the False...