Press Room

Washington, D.C. February 6, 2014. NWC Executive Director, Stephen Kohn, was a guest panelist at a forum regarding “Accountability in Government” held by the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Representatives of 19 countries including, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, India, Iraq, Jordan, Latvia, Lesotho, Macedonia, Nigeria, Slovakia, Tanzania, and […]

Senator Grassley Asks If FDA Monitored All Employees the Same as Whistleblowers Washington, D.C. February 2, 2012.  Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) launched an investigation in response to a lawsuit filed by six FDA whistleblowers and documents released by the National Whistleblowers Center that show the FDA targeted whistleblowers for special monitoring and intercepted personal communications to Congress, including emails to […]

NWC Launches National Campaign to Stop Grimm Act Washington, D.C. January 24, 2012. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center launched a national campaign against the Grimm Act (H.R. 2483). The bill, sponsored by Rep. Michael Grimm [R-NY13], systematically rolls back every whistleblower provision included in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. It has passed the initial mark-up […]

Wall Street Journal (December 15, 2011). If you’re among the 34% of Americans who have seen wrongdoing at their job, you may want to add this book to your Christmas wish list. Just don’t let your boss catch you reading it. Last week, the National Whistleblower Center announced the release of the second edition of “The […]

Washington, D.C. November 29, 2012 – On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of “collected proceeds” under the IRS whistleblower law. The “collected proceeds” issue impacts hundreds if […]