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Report: Many states lack law enforcement staff dedicated to environmental crime
The men on the EPA’s wanted list didn’t kill anyone, but they could make a lot of people sick. They are accused of dumping mercury contaminated soil, smuggling ozone depleting freon into the US or covering up illegal cruise ship...
Can courts proceed with a whistleblower suit after the DOJ seeks dismissal?
Bloomberg Law reports on an upcoming legal battle over the denial of Department of Justice request to dismiss a qui tam suit. Over the past two years, federal district courts have granted 25 DOJ motions to dismiss such suits, compared...
Is the identity of the Ukraine scandal whistleblower protected by law?
Just before the holiday, the American Bar Association published a statement on its "Legal Fact Check" webpage concluding that the whistleblower's identity is NOT Protected by the law. The lawyer for the White House whistleblower has asked that the person’s...
How many whistleblowers helped the feds uncover fraud this year? Reports are still coming in.
It may be the end of the year for the rest of the world, but the fiscal year ended in October. As we wait for the Department of Justice to crunch its numbers for the year end report on False...
Remembering Dennis Brutus, poet and international activist
Today we remember Dennis Brutus, a poet and international anti-apartheid activist who died ten years ago. While in exile in the U.S., he became a founding director of the National Whistleblower Center. Brutus understood the power of whistleblowing and pushed...
Whistleblowers were big news in 2019. Here’s a sample.
The New Yorker declares it the year of the whistleblower, and we offer some of our popular posts of 2019. From The New Yorker: This year, as one scandal after another played out in the news, it was easy to become...
Russian anti-doping whistleblowers seek refuge
The New York Times offers a profile of a family that had to flee their Russian homeland -- to an American city "they would rather not name' -- after blowing the whistle on athletic doping. “We are just like any...
Attacks on civil servants make some wary of blowing the whistle.
Two pieces of note for whistleblowers and their supporters from Government Executive. One reported on a survey that posed this question, which was answered by nearly 700 federal workers. Please complete the following sentence: “The attacks on the whistleblower by...
Public servants, questionable pork and a reading list
A round up of recent news begins with a link to a new piece in The Hill by the founders of the NWC. They ask "(N)ow that the impeachment case is clearly headed to a Senate trial, what will become...
Horowitz and other inspectors general stick up for whistleblowers
Michael Horowitz, DOJ IG Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to talk about his report on the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The debate over the whistleblower complaint about President Trump...
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