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In an unsettling report, it was revealed that prosecutions by the Obama administration are up for government whistleblowers. Despite Obama’s 2009 statement that he champions whistleblowers, his Justice Department has been pursing government whistleblowers relentlessly. Read report
In a secret report issued by the Department of Defense Inspector General, NSA whistleblower, Thomas Drake was vindicated in his efforts to sound the alarm that the NSA was misspending millions of taxpayers dollars. His efforts resulted in the government trying to “kill the messenger” by targeting Drake as a criminal instead of addressing the…
The Justice Department announced that a qui tam relator, after filing a qui tam claim against his former employer, provided a false document and made false statements to the Justice Department’s Anti-Trust Division to bolster his claim of price fixing among auto filter manufacturers. Read article
The SEC recently passed new rules implementing provisions of the Dodd-Frank Law rewarding whistleblowers a bounty for providing first-hand information of corporations that violate SEC regulations. However, not surprisingly, corporate lobbyists have been trying, with gusto, to either gut the law or make it much more difficult for whistleblowers to be successful. According to an…
NSA whistleblower, Thomas Drake decided to accept a plea deal that would have him plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sharing “classified” NSA information to the media, a far cry from the ridiculous felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. This means that the Justice Departments efforts to set an example of Drake for…
The New Yorker reported that the government’s case against former NSA employee, Thomas Drake, “appears to be crumbling.” Justice officials have been trying to avoid a trial by offering a plea deal to Drake that if he pleads guilty to a lessor charge, that he can avoid prison. However, Drake apparently is refusing to plead…
Dina Rasor’s weekly Solutions Column that appears in Truthout.org highlights the new SEC Whistleblower law that boosts the reward for information on Wall Street fraud. Similar to the federal qui tam law, this new law also includes provisions that increase protection for whistleblowers from retaliation. Wall street companies fought, unsuccessfully, to defang the law and…
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