Press Room

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. December 16, 2013.  Raoul Weil, the former head of UBS’s Global Wealth Management business is scheduled to appear for a hearing in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale today. He was extradited to the United States from Italy where he was arrested on an international warrant after being indicted for his role in conspiring […]

Presidential Policy Directive 19 is a Directive that creates administrative procedures “protecting” employee-whistleblowers who work for U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA, DNI and the Defense Intelligence Agency. When first announced by President Obama in late 2012, the Directive was met with mixed reviews. Some public interest groups praised the President for taking this initiative, […]

Washington, D.C. October 31, 2013. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act (S.42) creating for the first time whistleblower protections for employees who report antitrust violations. The bill will now be sent to the full Senate for a vote. Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Charles Grassley introduced this bipartisan bill which […]

Washington, D.C. July 31, 2013. By a unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.” The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate’s historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistleblowers have made to American democracy, as well as the struggles and sacrifices they have […]

Washington, D.C. July 30, 2013. The National Whistleblower Center issued a statement expressing relief that the military court today refused to find Bradley Manning guilty of “aiding the enemy.”  The charge, if it had been sustained on appeal, could have resulted in Mr. Manning spending the rest of his life in prison. “It was wrong for […]