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From the markets to the boardroom to the picket line, the reach of Danske Bank's money laundering fraud scandal continued to play out this week. Reuters delivered several stories. A Wednesday morning story reported that foreign investors sold Danish shares worth almost...

Members of the Supreme Court are skeptical of interpreting the statute of limitations in False Claims Acts cases in a way that would "help fraudsters,” according to attorney Stephen M. Kohn, who attended arguments today in a key False Claims...

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday in Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States, a case that will determine the statute of limitations window for False Claims Act (FCA) cases when the government declines to intervene. At...

Register here.  From The Environmental Law Institute. Illegal timber trade comprises 15-30% of the global timber trade according to Interpol, valued at USD$51-152 billion every year. Monitoring logging activities and enforcing forestry laws is notoriously difficult. To celebrate this year’s International...

Three Canadian whistleblowers have been awarded more than $7 million, the first payment of its kind by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). “These individuals voluntarily provided high quality, timely, specific and credible information, which helped advance enforcement actions resulting in...

Whistleblowers would be permitted to report wrongdoing to outside authorities before reporting to their company or agency’s internal review program, according to a provisional rule approved this week by the European Commission and member countries. French MEP Virginie Rozière, via...

The Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) should coordinate with the military services to do a better job of protecting whistleblower confidentiality and addressing delays in handling cases, according to a new report. The Government Accountability Office report found...

For International Women's Day, a few whistleblowers. From the NWC: Dr. Tommie (“Toni”) G. Savage Savage had a distinguished 20 year career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’, until she blew the whistle on the  fraud she discovered. https://youtu.be/FchvOoJp7Go...

A round-up of recent whistleblower news. The Conversation: #MeToo whistleblowing is upending century-old legal precedent demanding loyalty to the boss #MeToo was, of course, about sexual harassment and assault. But it was also a form of mass whistleblowing. The movement signaled victims’ willingness...

All three position on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) are now empty with the expiration of the only member’s appointment. In February, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved two of President Trump’s MSPB nominees, but the full...