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On November 28, 2017, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Digital Realty Trust v. Paul Somers on the question of whether the whistleblower protections of the Dodd-Frank Act extend to internal whistleblowers, or only to those who report to the SEC.… Continue Reading
Dear FCPA Blog,
I would like to update you on the progress I made with my whistleblower claims since I wrote to you earlier this month.
First, I have learned there are a lot of people who want to do the right thing and others who want to help them.… Continue Reading
Dear FCPA Blog,
I am a whistleblower working at an overseas subsidiary of a global company. English is not my mother tongue. But I would like to tell you some of my story.… Continue Reading
The Government Accountability Project — one of the oldest and best whistleblower protection and advocacy organizations — has published Working with Whistleblowers: A Guide for Journalists. It’s broader than it sounds and full of serious advice for would-be whistleblowers or those trying to help them.… Continue Reading
Corporate whistleblowers may be perceived to fall into one or more of several categories. The first category we should consider is for those who blow the whistle because they feel it is the right thing to do.… Continue Reading
The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday awarded a company outsider more than $1 million for helping stop illegal practices that were hurting investors.
The whistleblower provided “new information and substantial corroborating documentation of a securities law violation by a registered entity that impacted retail customers,” the SEC said. … Continue Reading
A new study found that financial rewards can unintentionally cause whistleblowers to delay reporting fraud or not report it at all.
The study appeared in the August edition of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.… Continue Reading
The most important thing for a company to remember when dealing with the Gross Human Rights Abuse provisions of the Criminal Finances Act is that they appear to be designed as a strict liability regime with no statutory defenses available.… Continue Reading
Big Pharma Sanofi-Aventis was awarded $38.7 million Thursday as its share of a $465 million False Claims Act settlement by Mylan for knowingly misclassifying EpiPen as a generic drug to avoid paying rebates owed to Medicaid.… Continue Reading
Frances McLeod, a founding partner of Forensic Risk Alliance, is spending a lot of time helping clients deal with EU privacy and data protection issues.
I talked with her about the Safe Harbor (it’s dead), the Privacy Shield, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.… Continue Reading
The whistleblower provisions of Dodd-Frank have been beset with interpretive difficulties, in part because of uncertainty regarding Dodd-Frank’s relationship to the whistleblower protections of the earlier Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
These difficulties have raised questions about which categories of whistleblowers are entitled to protection and what protections they are entitled to receive. … Continue Reading
August 7 will mark a decade since our first post in this space. And 3,653 days later (counting the leap days), we’re still having a ball.
In a post from 2008, we said “the greatest perk that comes from tending this garden is hearing from so many talented experts in the field of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.”… Continue Reading
