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Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden today introduced critically needed legislation to protect tax fraud whistleblowers from workplace retaliation. The National Whistleblower Center strongly believes that this legislation is crucial to effectively prevent honest employees from having their careers destroyed, simply for doing the right thing. “Whistleblowers have helped the IRS recover more than $3 […]

Part 1: A UBS insider blows the whistle on Swiss banking  Part 1: A UBS insider blows the whistle on Swiss banking. NEW YORK – It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking – the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names – and it’s the rare American that is allowed […]

Whistleblowers are no more likely to go to the government than internal compliance officers with concerns even when a windfall cash payment is dangled over their heads, a report from an advocacy group said. Studying cases filed under the False Claims Act since Jan. 1, 2007, the National Whistleblowers Center found that 89.7% of employees […]

Corporate America’s top regulator, Mary Schapiro, is caught in the middle of a nasty tug-of-war over her agency’s controversial plan to start paying corporate snitches for tips that help catch white-collar thugs. The battle — pitting companies against whistleblower advocates — has gotten so heated that the two opposing sides are threatening to blow up […]

Washington, D.C. August 1, 2012 – Today, Bradley Birkenfeld, the whistleblower who exposed UBS bank’s $20 billion illegal tax fraud scheme, was released from prison to a halfway house.  Mr. Birkenfeld entered Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania on January 8, 2010. He served his full term, less the mandatory good time credits afforded all […]