SEC Rulings Remind Whistleblowers of the Importance of Procedure
- posted: Jul. 31, 2014
- Employee Rights
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for the bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell Proper procedures are of the utmost importance for whistleblowers Read More
DC Circuit Maintains Protections for Internal Investigations
- posted: Jul. 28, 2014
- Employee Rights
Supposing is good, but finding out is better. ― Mark Twain Many of the privileges the law recognizes against the compelled disclosure of information exist in order to promote candor. For Read More
Supreme Court Poised to Hear TSA Whistleblower Case
- posted: Jul. 24, 2014
- Employee Rights
The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) plays a crucial role in our national safety infrastructure. Yet the agency has been subjected to significant criticism — and even been the butt of Read More
Food Safety Whistleblower Regulations on the Way
- posted: Jul. 21, 2014
- Employee Rights
Otto von Bismarck once said, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Fortunately, the government that makes the laws does want to see the Read More
Texas Medicaid Fraud Recovery Passes $400 Million Thanks to Whistleblowers
- posted: Jul. 17, 2014
- Graft and Corruption
Operated jointly by federal and state agencies, Medicaid is one of the largest and most complex governmental undertakings in the United States. Not surprisingly, it also provides a breeding ground Read More
Shady Record Keeping Not Just in the VA
- posted: Jul. 14, 2014
- Employee Rights
The nation was recently stunned by the revelation that Department of Veterans Affairs administrators were manipulating dates on records to conceal the unreasonable wait times veterans seeking medical care were Read More
Internal Revenue Service Reveals 2013 Whistleblower Figures
- posted: Jul. 10, 2014
- Employee Rights
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In the more than two centuries since Benjamin Franklin expressed those words, taxes have become perhaps Read More
New Whistleblower Provisions Under the Affordable Care Act
- posted: Jul. 07, 2014
- Employee Rights
A great deal of controversy and media attention has certainly surrounded the Affordable Care Act (ACA), both before and after its passage. However, little if any of that attention concerned Read More
Supreme Court Extends SOX Whistleblower Protection to Contractors
- posted: Jul. 03, 2014
- Employee Rights
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Following a rash of financial calamities largely caused by risky and illegal Read More