2013-The Year of the Whistleblower
In 2012, with the help of whistleblowers, the Justice Department reported recoveries of $5 billion under the False Claims Act. 2013 is predicted to be even bigger for whistleblowers. Read the article
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In 2012, with the help of whistleblowers, the Justice Department reported recoveries of $5 billion under the False Claims Act. 2013 is predicted to be even bigger for whistleblowers. Read the article
Along with signing the National Defense Authorization Act that provides provisions for protection of federal whistleblowers, he wrote a signing statement that seems to question those protections. Read the article:
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 has included new whistleblower protections covering defense contractors, subcontractors, or grant recipients from disclosures of illegality, gross waste, gross mismanagement, abuse of authority, among other issues. Read the article
How valuable are whistleblowers to the federal government? The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that whistleblowers helped recover $3.3 billion through the use of the Qui Tam provisions of the False Claims Act. Read the article
Good article from a whistleblower on his secrets every whistleblower should know. Read the article
We have always known this, but now it’s official. Private service contractors hired by DoD is costing DoD three times more than if they used their own resources. This is not counting all the fraud, waste, and abuse that also has been rampant. Read the article
President Obama signed into law new legislation that affords greater protection for federal employees. Read the article
In an announcement that has a draconian effect, the Secretary of Defense warned DoD employees it will take extraordinary efforts to plug leaks of classified information and reveal the leakers along with referring the cases to the Justice Department for prosecution. Read the article
The House of Representatives passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) that increases protections for federal workers who blow the whistle on fraud, waste and abuse. Read the article
A continuation of our last post on the creep of retaliation against whistleblowers by government agencies. Read the article
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