Press Room

Washington, D.C. November 15, 2011. Today, NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn issued the following statement on the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State: There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that […]

Washington, D.C. November 11, 2011. Today, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower Jane Turner issued a statement on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Ms. Turner, a 25-year veteran Agent, blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations. Ms. Turner reported […]

Pathology records are at the centre of a new disagreement over disgraced medic Andrew Wakefield. It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients’ histories to make money. So it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January […]

Washington, D.C. November 3, 2011. During today’s mark-up of H.R. 3289, a bill amending the Whistleblower Protection Act, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to strip federal employee whistleblowers of a right to jury trial. The committee voted to approve the reform amendments without fixing other significant defects including limits on appeals […]

Whistleblowers Eligible for Hundreds of Millions in Rewards Washington, D.C. October 30, 2011. The SEC is offering awards for employees who submitted information about 220 companies brought to justice earlier this year. However, with only days remaining before the November 10, 2011 deadline to claim awards, the SEC has not yet heard from most eligible […]