Five of the All-Time Biggest Whistleblowers
- posted: Aug. 05, 2013
- Employee Rights
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. -Horace Mann From preventing human beings from being used like laboratory animals to revealing multi-million dollar price fixing, whistleblowers often sacrifice Read More
The Texas Whistleblower’s Whistle Did not Blow Against TAMUK
- posted: Aug. 01, 2013
- Employee Rights
Gertrud Moreno was an assistant vice-president and comptroller of Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). She claimed that her supervisor, Thomas Saban, terminated her after she reported to TAMUK’s president that Saban’s Read More
A Texas Whistleblower Could Have Saved Lives
- posted: Jul. 29, 2013
- Employee Rights
On April 17, 2013, the West Fertilizer plant, owned by Adair Grain, Inc., exploded, killing at least 14 and injuring hundreds more. Although months have passed since the explosion, many Read More
Nurse Anne Mitchell’s Whistleblowing Almost Blew Out Whistleblowing in Texas
- posted: Jul. 25, 2013
- Employee Rights
The Winkler County nurses trials began with two nurses, Anne Mitchell and Vicki Galle, filing an anonymous complaint with the Texas Medical Board regarding the substandard care provided by Dr. Read More
SEC’s Whistleblower Program Trudges Forward
- posted: Jul. 22, 2013
- Employee Rights
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. -Franz Kafka Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) amended the Securities Exchange Read More
Medicaid Fraud and the Whistleblower
- posted: Jul. 18, 2013
- Employee Rights
Texas' campaign against Medicaid fraud reached two landmark milestones. Since 2002, the Civil Medicaid Fraud Division (CMF) recovered more than $400 million for the state of Texas and more than Read More
A Texas Whistleblower Must Blow his Whistle to a Proper Law Enforcement Authority
- posted: Jul. 15, 2013
- Employee Rights
In addition to being a professor of surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW), Dr. Larry Gentilello was the Chair of the Division of Burn, Trauma and Read More
Will the Whistleblowing Last in Benghazi?
- posted: Jul. 11, 2013
- Employee Rights
On September 11, 2012, a heavily armed group blitzed the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. An additional armed assault targeted a nearby CIA annex, killing four people, including U.S. Read More
Demystifying the Texas Whistleblower Act
- posted: Jul. 09, 2013
- Employee Rights
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose Read More
Are You the Fox in the Henhouse? Whistleblower Protection in In-House Investigations
- posted: Jun. 17, 2013
- Employee Rights
Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Serpico, Karen Silkwood, Jeffrey Wigand, Sharon Watkins and Floyd Landis — only a few names on the long list of people who blew the whistle on fraudulent Read More