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Whistleblowers can be part of the solution as the ocean summit targets threats to the sea
By Hollyn Walters This week’s World Ocean Summit in Abu Dhabi will address five major threats to the oceans: overfishing, coastal pollution, habitat destruction, warming, and acidification. The goal of the summit is to build conceptual bridges across governments and...
On World Wildlife Day, a reminder that whistleblowers can help protect turtles, dolphins and other marine species
The United Nations has named March 3, Sunday, as World Wildlife Day.This year's theme is “Life below water,” and events took pace Friday at the United Nations in New York and around the globe. They include shoreline trash collection in British Columbia, a...
For more than 150 years, the False Claims Act has been key to ferreting out fraud in US military and health care spending.
The False Claims Act (FCA) has long served as a powerful weapon against fraud and waste in government programs, from rancid Civil War rations to Medicare scams. The Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered $2.88 billion under the law last year, with whistleblowers...
When Congress calls for whistleblowers, federal employees need to know their rights before answering
Rep. Maxine Waters issued an open letter to potential whistleblowers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) late last week.The California Democrat’s letter was addressed to agency employees who witness waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement. It asks that they “please do...
The drama of whistleblowing, on stage and in the White House
“Roan @ The Gates” is new play about a whistleblower and how her actions impact her marriage. The play just ended a run at Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey Outspoken civil rights attorney Nat and her NSA analyst...
Talking about wildlife whistleblowers and how they could save the world’s cutest porpoise
From Terra Verde, a weekly public radio program on environmental news. Has the US government been failing to take advantage of an existing wildlife crime whistleblower program to fight against wildlife crime? Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini...
A whistleblower exposed money laundering at Danske Bank’s Estonian branch. Now the government is shutting it down.
Seal of the Estonian EBFS Danske Bank has been ordered to close its troubled Estonian branch before the end of 2019. Estonian regulators noted on February 19 that the bank violated anti-money laundering regulations for many years by allowing high-risk...
Brief: Supreme Court needs to uphold False Claims Act statute of limitations as “clearly set forth in the law.”
When does the statute of limitations clock start running in a False Claims Act (FCA) case when the government declines to intervene in a whistleblower case? That is the question the Supreme Court will consider when it takes up Cochise...
The effort to improve whistleblower protection in Europe will fail unless insiders can seek help from outsiders
The proposed European Parliament directive on whistleblower protection could make it more difficult for individuals to come forward with information about wrongdoing, according to a coalition of transparency and anti-corruption groups. At issue is a provision that requires employees to...
A. Ernest Fitzgerald, once called “America’s most famous whistleblower,” dies at 92
A man once called “America’s most famous whistleblower” has died at the age of 92. In 1968, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a top financial manager for the Air Force, revealed a $2.3 billion cost overrun in the Air Forces’ Lockheed C-5...
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