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Veterans Affairs promises better treatment for VA whistleblowers. Will it happen this time?
President Trump promised better protections for Veterans Affairs whistleblowers. But, VA staff say the office set up to protect them actually works against them. On Tuesday, the head of the office testified that they would do better. From USA Today:...
It’s a new era for Australia’s whistleblowers – in the private sector
Dennis Gentilin of Macquarie University writes that whistleblowing will always take a toll, but it need not be career suicide. From The Conversation, which promises "academic rigor, journalistic flair." As strange as it might sound, whistleblowers in Australia have reason to...
Animal welfare whistleblowers protect critters, farmers and our food supply.
Whistleblowers often speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. This week, several stories touched on efforts to protect fish and farm animals. A new, EU-based “Fishyleaks” website allows anonymous reporting of overfishing and other violations of fishing industry rules....
Why didn’t the whistleblower make it to work? Because he was Snow’d-en
What happens to whistleblowers is often absurd, but rarely funny, win or lose. A Google search on "whistleblower jokes" turned up the one you see in the headline and a few New Yorker cartoons. So, there's not much whistleblower humor...
Whistleblower retaliation in the UK: Report says laws are “complicated…cumbersome, obsolete and fragmented.”
Whistleblower laws are so under-the-radar in the UK that most people don’t know they exist. At the same time, whistleblower retaliation is rampant. The public officials designated to help whistleblowers don’t understand the laws or their roles in enforcing them...
Whistleblowers expose hospice fraud. Can they do the same for quality-of-care?
Medicare and Medicaid are the deep pockets of the federal budget, paying out nearly $1 trillion in 2018. So, it’s no wonder the programs are targets for fraudsters. Some steal from the sick. Some steal money meant to soothe the...
CNN follows up on wildlife whistleblower’s report on “shenanigans” in Arizona development deal
CNN has caught up with Steve Spangle, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service whistleblower. In June, Spangle talked to High Country News about what he described as “shenanigans” around a proposed housing development in Arizona. Put on hold because of...
Commodities crime keeps the CFTC financial whistleblower program busy
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) financial whistleblower program has been busy, most lately announcing a $2 million award to “two model whistleblowers who provided the agency with significant information that prompted the CFTC to open an investigation....The multiple interviews...
CNN reports Secretary of State’s security officers became “UberEats with guns” before they became whistleblowers.
“An employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development may not ask his secretary to type his personal correspondence during duty hours.” That is one example in the federal code of regulations of a personal task executive branch employees are...
Opinion: New Law Provides Protections For Tax Whistleblowers And Better Communication With IRS
A guest post from Dean Zerbe, senior policy analyst for the National Whistleblower Center and former tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. Tax whistleblowers had good news the other day with the Taxpayer First Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-25)...
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