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The Whistleblower Protection Act (S. 372) is pending in the Senate and seeks to clarify the rules and protections that cover whistleblowers. Some, however, think it will have the opposite effect, and it’s drawing fire from some whistleblower groups.   Frederick Whitehurst is with the National Whistleblowers Center and has written a letter of opposition […]

March 9, 2010 (Politico). In a bid to secure a much-needed bipartisan victory, the Obama administration is trying to secure passage of protections for government whistleblowers. But some advocacy groups are complaining that the legislation does not go far enough to protect government employees in the national security field and, in fact, would roll back […]

(“US Internal Revenue Service Pays First Big Whistle-Blower Award,” published at 11:57 a.m. ET, incorrectly stated the amount of the award. The correct version follows.) A three-year-old U.S. Internal Revenue Service program that promises hefty bounties for information on big tax cheats has paid out what appears to be its first substantial reward. The office […]

Washington, D.C. February 17, 2010.  Today, the National Whistleblowers Center released evidence regarding the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld , which demonstrates his heroic efforts to expose tax fraud.   Attached to the fact sheet prepared by the NWC are scanned original documents related to the illegal UBS tax scandal. “The record shows the Department of Justice’s decision to […]

At a critical point in the intense U.S.-Swiss negotiations that took place this past summer to get the names of U.S. taxpayers who were part of a massive tax evasion program, things suddenly took a nasty turn. The U.S. Justice Department, frustrated for decades by Swiss efforts to foil any tampering with its bank secrecy […]