Whistleblowers

What Did Banks Learn From The Financial Crisis? Not Very Much, New Report Shows

The Huffington Post | Emily Peck | Posted 05.31.2012

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What did big banks learn after the mammoth bailouts of the financial crisis? Why, not that much it seems. That's one powerful takeaway from Bloombe...

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Watchdog: Obama Should 'Light A Fire' Under IRS Whistleblower Office

Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012

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By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - A Republican senator advocating for whistleblowers called on President Barack Ob...

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Media Silent When Administration Targets News Sources

Edward Wasserman | Posted 05.09.2012

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Edward Wasserman

When President Obama addressed the American Society of News Editors convention last month, the real news was what didn't happen. The watchdogs didn't bark.

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Internal Review Shows Gross Mishandling of Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigations

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.08.2012

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Project On Government Oversight

We owe military whistleblowers every possible opportunity to safely expose wrongdoing, and this report shows that the system has let them down. It's imperative that we fix it.

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Loren Berlin

JPMorgan Chase Whistleblower: 'Essentially Suicide' To Stand Up To Bank

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 05.08.2012

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When Linda Almonte alerted her boss at JPMorgan Chase about potential fraud in a major deal she was helping to close, she expected him to applaud her ...

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Janell Ross

Whistleblowers Face Deportation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.08.2012

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In September 2008, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav ravaged cities along the Texas coast. Ambitious contractors and those just eager to help went looking for...

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Is The Air Force's F-22 Fighter Jet Making Pilots Sick?

Posted 05.07.2012

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Two elite Air Force pilots are seeking protection under the federal whistleblower law for revealing safety problems on the F-22 Raptor, and refusing t...

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Take a Minute and Stick Up for Whistleblower, Peter Van Buren

Pat LaMarche | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: PETER VAN BUREN, Whistleblowers, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, US State Department, Politics News
Pat LaMarche

Radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry October 16, 1859. His goal was to encourage the slaves to revolt against their masters. ...

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Dan Froomkin

If You Can't Prosecute The Crime, Go For The Cover-Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mortgage Fraud, Video, Whistleblowers, Department of Justice, Eileen-Foster, Ridenhour Prizes, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A whistleblower who exposed systemic fraud by Countrywide mortgage lenders called on the Department of Justice on Wednesday to prosecute...

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Dear Daniel Ellsberg

Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.24.2012

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Peter Van Buren

When I faced a crisis of conscience, to tell what I knew because it needed to be told, coming to realize I was risking at the least my job if not jail, I remembered the Pentagon Papers from 1971 you risked the same and more to release.

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ALEC Running Tax Scam for Big Companies

Bob Edgar | Posted 04.23.2012

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Bob Edgar

Today, Common Cause is announcing a whistleblower complaint against ALEC. We are submitting several thousand pages of ALEC's internal records that we believe demonstrate beyond debate that ALEC for years has lied to the IRS and the American public about its activities.

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Homeland Security Has Some Questions For Indian Software Giant

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012

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MUMBAI, April 22 (Reuters) - Infosys, India's No. 2 software services exporter, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for ...

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Stories From the Frontline: Don't Drink the Yellow Kool-Aid

D. Sidney Potter | Posted 04.19.2012

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D. Sidney Potter

The banks' almost near-inability to properly staff qualified personnel was a part of the comedy of errors. As an example, some of it was lost in translation -- literally.

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Whistleblower Finds Death-Threat Note On Office Chair

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.13.2012

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How come there aren't more whistleblowers? It's a vexing question for anyone who'd like to see corporate crime reduced. Just this week, CNN noted t...

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Joining the Whistleblowers' Club

Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.09.2012

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Peter Van Buren

As our government accumulates ever more of what it thinks the American people have no right to know about, there will only be increasing persecutions as prosecutions.

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Health Insurer To Pay Big Over Whistleblower Claims Of Overcharging

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

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March 23 (Reuters) - WellCare Health Plans Inc said on Friday that a $137.5 million deal to settle a whistleblower suit became effe...

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Whistleblower Accuses One City Of Outsourcing Jobs

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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By Dan Levine March 21 (Reuters) - A contractor hired by the city of San Diego made confidential police files accessible to people ou...

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Speaking Truth to Power

William Astore | Posted 05.21.2012

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William Astore

Peter Van Buren's story is a cautionary tale of waste, mismanagement, and hubris, one that should serve to discourage (or at least to inform) current efforts in Afghanistan.

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Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror

Karen J. Greenberg | Posted 05.19.2012

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Karen J. Greenberg

Those who imagine the era of overreach in the name of national security coming to an end any time soon would do well to remember that some spectacular national security trials are on the horizon -- and that we may be entering a new age of governmental vindictiveness.

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Ex-Bank Executive Sues After Not Receiving Whistleblower Reward

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.12.2012

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Getting the IRS to give you money might not be the easiest thing in the world. But that's what Joseph Insinga is trying to do. Insinga, formerly an...

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Why No One Would Listen

Eyal Press | Posted 05.06.2012

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Eyal Press

What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so?

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Looking For Sweet Whistleblower Cash? Don't Go To The FBI

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.29.2012

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Getting ready to blow the whistle? Be careful who you hand the information to. Whistleblowers who go to the FBI to tip them off about financial fra...

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Moody's Analyst Blows Whistle On Mortgage Debt Ratings, Allegedly Gets Pay Cut

Reuters | Posted 04.29.2012

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* Ilya Eric Kolchinsky may pursue retaliation claim * Moody's wins dismissal of defamation, other claims * Kolchinsky we...

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Obama Administration Called Out for Hypocrisy Over Whistleblower Prosecutions

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.28.2012

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Project On Government Oversight

The Obama Administration has brandished the Espionage Act in six cases to prosecute leaks of classified information to the media, compared to just three such cases in all previous administrations.

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Big Bank Whistleblower Claims It Cost Him Major Bonus Money

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 02.21.2012

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One banker is claiming that blowing the whistle on his colleagues' inappropriate behavior cost him millions. Edward Williems, a former senior inve...

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