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WASHINGTON — The recent approval of a new device to treat knee injuries followed a lobbying campaign that overcame repeated rejections by scientists within the Food and Drug Administration, agency documents show. The FDA’s internal dissent over Menaflex, which targets the most-common knee injury afflicting everyone from high-school athletes to baby boomers, is straining a […]

Washington, D.C. March 5, 2009. The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) applauds President Barack Obama’s commitment to crack down on federal contract abuse, especially in the defense industry.  As President Obama observed, the contracting process is “plagued by massive cost overruns and outright fraud.” According to Michael D. Kohn, General Counsel of the NWC, “Federal employees […]

In the most direct evidence yet tying UBS Chairman Peter Kurer to oversight failures at the Swiss bank, Investment News learned today that the U.S. Justice Department recently criticized as inadequate an internal investigation that he supervised. The 2006 investigation focused on whistleblower allegations that bank managers were encouraging breaches of UBS’s own written policies […]

Most who report retaliation don’t get help or protection. Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Workplace whistleblowers have little to protect them from retaliation by employers, according to a new study by Congress’ investigative arm. In a report issued Thursday, the Government Accountability Office found that inadequate resources and poor tracking of complaints have left most whistleblowers […]

For Immediate Release Friday, February 27, 2009 Grassley urges the President to change culture of bureaucracy by honoring whistleblowers with a Rose Garden ceremony WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Grassley today urged President Barack Obama to plan a Rose Garden ceremony to honor whistleblowers in order to strengthen transparency, good government and accountability in the federal […]