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Washington, D.C. March 31, 2011. Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), was sentenced to one month in prison, twelve months probation and 200 hours of community service yesterday, after he pled guilty to criminal charges for his misconduct during is tenure at OSC. During FY 2008, of the 530 […]

Washington, D.C. March 1, 2011. Today, Lyons Press officially releases The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. Written in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act and similar new “qui tam” rewards laws that permit employees to obtain multi-million dollar recoveries, the Handbook is the first-ever consumer’s guide to whistleblowing. It […]

Washington, D.C. February 22, 2011. On March 1, 2011, Lyons Press will officially release The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. Written in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act and similar new “qui tam” rewards laws that permit employees to obtain multi-million dollar recoveries, the Handbook is the first-ever consumer’s […]

Washington, D.C.  February 7, 2011. On Friday February 4th, the National Whistleblower Center filed a 120-page rulemaking comment with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), rebutting the main concerns raised by corporate lobby groups. The corporate campaign to undercut whistleblower reforms in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law continued to escalate as leading corporate lobby groups, including […]

Washington, D.C. January 12, 2011. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement: Whistleblower Protection for Federal Employees — Let’s Get it Right The new Congress gives whistleblower advocates an opportunity to make a new start on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (“WPEA”). The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) today calls on legislators and […]