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WASHINGTON, D.C. | August 31, 2018. On May 8, 2018, Representative Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) and Don Young (R-AK), introduced H.R. 5697, the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act (WCATA) of 2018. The bipartisan bill will “support wildlife conservation, improve anti-trafficking enforcement, [and] provide dedicated funding for wildlife conservation at no expense to the taxpayer.” It includes critical whistleblower provisions […]

Read the National Whistleblower Day program and press packet to learn more about the history of National Whistleblower Day, and see the full list of speakers. If you are a member of the press who would like to attend the event, please contact jm@whistleblowers.org.

The resolution was introduced by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and cosponsored by all members of the bipartisan Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus. The idea for National Whistleblower Day was first sparked by the re-discovery of America’s first whistleblower law, enacted on July 30, 1778. The rediscovery was based on original historical research published in The Whistleblower’s Handbook, […]

I’m proud to be a whistleblower. I knew I did the right thing by reporting fraud within the FBI. Last week, the National Whistleblower Center asked you to watch a speech where former FBI Director James Comey spoke about whistleblowers. Director Comey talked about my case in that speech (referring to me as “Michael Kobus”), […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. | June 20, 2018—The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) has made a formal request to the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Mark Carney, that the BoE remove a misleading report on U.S. whistleblower reward laws from its website within 10 working days. The letter to Governor Carney states: “We are concerned that […]