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Relief Ordered for FDA “Regulatory Review Officer” Fired for Blowing the Whistle on Unsafe Breast Cancer Detection Device Washington, D.C. October 19, 2010.  The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) allowed a stay requested by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel on behalf of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whistleblower, Paul T. Hardy.  Under the provisions of […]

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 […]