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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...
Congress Questions Facebook CEO on Wildlife Crime
In his testimony before Congress last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg received tough questions from members of Congress about wildlife trafficking and the illegal ivory trade on his two-billion user social media site. At the Joint Senate Committee Hearing, Senator...
Delegation from South Asian Countries Visits the National Whistleblower Center
The international visitors delegation take a picture with presenters Michael Kohn, President of NWC, and Maya Efrati, an NWC legal fellow. A delegation from countries including India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, visited the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) today...
Whistleblower Alleges Facebook Facilitates Wildlife Trafficking
An AP news story reports that an anonymous whistleblower has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that Facebook is facilitating and profiting from illegal wildlife trafficking on its social media platform. The anonymous whistleblower's attorneys...
Whistleblowers Vital to Eliminating Medicare Fraud
In a recent interview with the AARP, Attorney General Sessions took a strong stance against Medicare fraud and empowering Medicare whistleblowers. Sessions stated that it’s time to consider taking Medicare fraud as seriously as the war on drugs (certainly an issue Attorney General Sessions...
Whistleblower Tip Leads To 60-Ton Illegal Timber Seizure Outside Mumbai
The Hindustan Times has recently published a story on a 60-ton illegal timber seizure in Maharashtra, India that was initiated by a whistleblower. Since May 2017, over 500 tons of illegally-cut timber have been seized by authorities in the west-central Indian state....
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