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Whistleblowers are playing a key role in revealing Medicare kickback schemes disguised as so-called patient assistance programs. In April, five separate pharmaceutical companies paid a total of $247 million for running such programs. This week, a new qui tam suit was...

The online news site The Intercept offers a thorough piece looking at how the federal government follows digital and paper trails to identify anonymous whistleblowers in their midst.The folks over at the Intercept should know. The source of one of...

A round up of whistleblower news. Whistleblower rewarded for exposing security flaws. From The New York Times The government said the video surveillance software it bought from Cisco was “of no value” because it did not “meet its primary purpose:...

Joe Davidson, who writes about the federal government for The Washington Post, points out that there are a lot of so-called appreciation days. There’s Houseplant Appreciation Day in January, Truck Driver Appreciation Week in September and National Nurses Week in May,...

National Whistleblower Day is over, but the tweets from NWC continue. https://twitter.com/StopFraud  

Note: To hear from whistleblowers themselves, tune into the National Whistleblower Day event on Tuesday. The National Physicians Malpractice Database is supposed to protect patients. Now, one Vermont whistleblower says it is being used to punish her for filing a...

This year’s National Whistleblower Day event will be Tuesday, July 30. It will be broadcast live from Capitol Hill via Facebook.  If you are going to blow the whistle, do it right, says Stephen M. Kohn, chair of National Whistleblower...

Bulletproof vests that don’t work. Russian money laundering. US tax cheats with Swiss bank accounts. No-bid, sweetheart government contracts. Once a year, whistleblowers and their supporters gather to remind each other why they risked so much to expose wrongdoing. This...

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:...

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...