Whistleblower Law Insights

The Securities and Exchange Commission has missed the April 21 deadline for finalizing its new whistleblower rules. The expected date is now between May and July, according to the SEC’s calendar....

The Obama administration is pursuing individual executives who are responsible for wrongdoing, rather than simply imposing fines on their companies. This month the CEO of Forest Laboratories was notified...

Reporting fraud in Philadelphia has gone high tech. City Controller Alan Butkovitz has introduced an iPhone app that allows citizens to submit reports directly to the controller’s fraud unit. The...

Johnson and Johnson has agreed to pay $70 million, following allegations that subsidiaries of the company used improper bribes in foreign countries, including payments to Saddam Hussein, in violation of...

Verizon has agreed to pay $93.5 million to resolve allegations that it systematically overcharged the government for voice and data services beyond their fixed contracts. The whistleblower case had been...

A divided court of appeals for the 4th circuit has upheld the unconditional sealing of False Claims Act cases. Dissenting parties felt that the automatic application of a seal violated the First Amendment...

A report from the Government Accountability Office has identified $135 billion dollars in price growth from original spending estimates at the Pentagon in the past two years. The report indicates that...

Although both the United States and the United Kingdom are cracking down on corporate fraud and corruption, the U.K.’s Bribery Act of 2010 may be a game-changer. The Bribery Act, which is broader in...

Bart Chilton, Commodities Futures Trading Commissioner, says that the success of the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act should inform CFTC whistleblower proposals. Chilton admits that whistleblower...

The unfounded fear that whistleblower programs hurt internal compliance and disclosure programs now is being raised in Canada following an announcement by the Ontario Securities Commission that it is considering...