Press Releases

Washington, D.C. February 22, 2011. On March 1, 2011, Lyons Press will officially release The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. Written in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act and similar new “qui tam” rewards laws that permit employees to obtain multi-million dollar recoveries, the Handbook is the first-ever consumer’s […]

Washington, D.C.  February 7, 2011. On Friday February 4th, the National Whistleblower Center filed a 120-page rulemaking comment with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), rebutting the main concerns raised by corporate lobby groups. The corporate campaign to undercut whistleblower reforms in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law continued to escalate as leading corporate lobby groups, including […]

Washington, D.C. January 12, 2011. Today, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement: Whistleblower Protection for Federal Employees — Let’s Get it Right The new Congress gives whistleblower advocates an opportunity to make a new start on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (“WPEA”). The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) today calls on legislators and […]

Washington, D.C. January 8, 2011. Today, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, issued the following statement expressing his concern about the rise in retaliatory investigations in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal: The WikiLeaks scandal is being used to justify a witch hunt against federal employees suspected of being whistleblowers. Currently, the […]