Press Room

Washington, D.C. July 11, 2012. The Washington Post reported today that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have launched the largest post-conviction case review in American history. The review was sparked by the work of Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, a top FBI crime lab expert who initially blew the whistle on […]

Washington, D.C. July 11, 2012. The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a precedent-setting whistleblower tax case pending before the U.S. Tax Court. The case, Insinga v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, alleged that the IRS delay in ruling on whistleblower reward cases was tantamount to a denial of claims. […]

Washington, D.C. July 2, 2012. Today, GlaxoSmithKline agreed to settle four whistleblower lawsuits and to pay $3 billion for committing healthcare fraud. Whistleblowers reported that the company had engaged in off-label marketing for multiple drugs and had failed to report important safety data. The agreement marks the largest healthcare fraud settlement in American history. The […]

Washington, D.C. June 22, 2012. In a dramatic setback for the U.S. Department of Justice’s “War on Whistleblowers,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today reversed a district court decision that had thrown out the Privacy Act case of former U.S. prosecutor Richard Convertino. The Privacy Act case, which accused the […]

FDA Whistleblowers’ Complaint Sparks OSC Guidance Memo on Electronic Surveillance Washington, D.C. June 20, 2012. Today, U.S. Special Counsel Carolyn N. Lerner issued a formal memorandum that the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) sent to the Chief Information Officers and General Counsels of all executive departments and agencies stating that electronic surveillance of an employee’s contacts […]