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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 […]

Attorneys Stephen Kohn and Dean Zerbe are pleased to announce today that a joint client – who wishes to remain anonymous – received a whistleblower award under the new IRS whistleblower award program of $11.6 million dollars. “We greatly appreciate the IRS recognizing the work of this whistleblower and for making this significant, major award.  […]

There’s been something special lately about the Office of Special Counsel. It’s doing its job. OSC is an independent federal agency with a long and well-deserved reputation for failing to protect federal whistleblowers, although part of its mission is “to safeguard the merit system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices.” One […]

The Whistleblowers’ How-To Guide Frederic Whitehurst and other famous U.S. whistleblowers are donating a book their lawyer wrote on how to do it right to libraries across the country. Frederic Whitehurst had no idea what being a whistleblower entailed. He simply became outraged when he witnessed a colleague in the FBI laboratory giving misleading testimony […]