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Everybody Is Talking About It: Facebook’s Wildlife Black Market
Watch the ABC News video here. National Whistleblower Center featured in ABC News, New York Post & more Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center, Stephen M. Kohn, has spoken to ABC News investigative reporters recently about a Securities and Exchange...
Whistleblower Detection Credited in 76% of Last 100 APPS Cases
Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) whistleblower law brings dividends WASHINGTON, D.C. | May 11, 2018—In an analysis of 100 recent Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) prosecutions available on Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), court records...
Landmark Bill Combating Wildlife Trafficking Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives
Bill contains whistleblower protections, enhanced enforcement and restitution provisions WASHINGTON, D.C. | MAY 8, 2018 — Today, Rep. Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) and Rep. Don Young (R-AK) introduced the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2018. This groundbreaking legislation enhances the ability of informants...
U.S. Government Accountability Office Urges Federal Government to Take Stronger Action to Promote Wildlife Crime Whistleblowers
Whistleblower Law Expert Responds to GAO Report on Combating Wildlife Trafficking Washington, D.C. May 8, 2018. In a report released today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued wide-ranging recommendations to increase the effectiveness of paying informants and whistleblowers to...
Engaging African Youth in Anti-Corruption Efforts
NWC Intern Karina Coltun Schneider, right, poses for a picture with African Union Ambassador Chihombori-Quao, center, and a fellow civil society organization delegate, left. Youth worldwide are speaking out against corruption. At the 2018 World Bank Group and IMF Civil...
Truth-Telling at the 15th Ridenhour Prizes
The 15th Annual Ridenhour Prizes were held this year at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In 1968, Vietnam War veteran Ron Ridenhour heard disturbing stories from fellow soldiers about a massacre that occurred during the war. Multiple first-hand...
Facebook Wildlife Trafficking Report Spreads Around World
Ambassador Robert Whitehead, U.S. Embassy Togo, inspects seized ivory (2014) News outlets around the United States have picked up and expanded upon an Associated Press story about the whistleblower complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lodged against Facebook....
Daniel Ellsberg On Whistleblowing
Daniel Ellsberg speaks on his experience blowing the whistle. “What would you do if you were a young professional working at your dream job, and you discover that your employer was lying to the public, promoting a disastrous foreign war,...
100 Days to National Whistleblower Day 2018!
Attendees at the 2017 National Whistleblower Day celebration. Today marks the 100-day countdown to National Whistleblower Day, celebrated each year on July 30th. National Whistleblower Day commemorates the passing of America’s first whistleblower law on July 30th, 1778. This visionary...
Good News for Pennsylvania Whistleblowers
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules whistleblowers eligible to receive noneconomic compensation as rewards. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a big decision for whistleblowers in Bailets v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 2018 WL 1516785 (Pa. 2018). The Court ruled that noneconomic damages are...
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