• posted: Sep. 26, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower awards

Scott Teutscher worked for the Riverside County Sheriff's Association (RSA) from 1999 until he was dismissed in 2005. Beginning in 2002, the Riverside Sheriff's Association Legal Defense Trust covered the Read More

• posted: Sep. 25, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Whistleblower Richard M. Bowen III told The New York Times he plans to “leave this country better off than the way I found it.” He refuses to be muzzled about Read More

• posted: Sep. 23, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• FBI,  government bribery,  government corruption

With episodes of undercover FBI work, revelation of government bribery and retaliation by county officials, this whistleblowing story is one for Hollywood. Whistleblowing to the FBI Alessandro Salvo and his father operate Read More

• posted: Sep. 19, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• whistleblowing overseas

A farmer in Ghana admits that for years he concealed the corruption of a local public officer who works in his region of Ghana. The farmer is aware of the Read More

• posted: Sep. 16, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Two former Warner Chilcott sales representatives, Lisa Alexander and James Goan, have blown the whistle with a bundle of allegations, including illegal marketing tricks, kickbacks and privacy violations. Federal laws Read More

• posted: Sep. 12, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang believe that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals misinterpreted the law. They appealed the court’s decision in Lawson v. FMR LLC and filed a Read More

• posted: Sep. 09, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Texas Whistleblower Act

A state employee sent an email to a superior declaring that if a particular contract were not honored, then the entire department would not be complying with federal regulation. After Read More

• posted: Sep. 05, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• OSHA whistleblower protection program

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Pilgrim Pride Read More

• posted: Sep. 02, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower awards

Despite reports of a federal government crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers, a review of the amount of whistleblower settlements in 2012 will blow your mind. Across all business disciplines and Read More

• posted: Aug. 29, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower awards

When corporate executives, government employees, or simple truck drivers decide to report regulatory violations or illegal activity, they assume serious risks of loss of livelihood, alienation of friends and even Read More

• posted: Aug. 26, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• US whistleblower protection enhancement act

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. -Harry S. Truman In April 2013, Jonathan Landay, a reporter for McClatchy, the third-largest newspaper publisher Read More

• posted: Aug. 22, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• US whistleblower protection enhancement act

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. -Aesop Daniel Ellsburg, Karen Silkwood, and W. Mark Felt are usually glorified as brave whistleblowers who risked everything for the Read More

• posted: Aug. 19, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• office of the whistleblower,  Tax Relief and Health Care Act

When a person assumes the role of a whistleblower to stop the illegal and fraudulent activity of a corporation or governmental agency, it is understood that there may be harsh Read More

• posted: Aug. 15, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• SEC whistleblower program

Cheryl D. Eckard was drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) quality manager. In 2002, she was sent to the company's primary plant in Puerto Rico to fix problems cited by the U.S. Read More

• posted: Aug. 12, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Texas Medical Board

In September 2011, Texas enacted a law prohibiting anonymous complaints to the Texas Medical Board (TMB). Whether the new law has dissuaded people from filing complaints about medical professionals requires Read More

• posted: Aug. 08, 2013
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• False Claims Act

The top 30 False Claims Act settlements of 2012 totaled $9,094,474,000. Initiated by whistleblowers, the top three settlements involved $3 billion from GlaxoSmithKline for illegal marketing of prescription drugs, $1.5 Read More