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FIFA Backs Board Members as Qatar Whistleblower Retracts Graft Claims

Soccer's governing body said today it will back board members accused of corruption unless it gets proof of wrongdoing after an ex-worker from Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid retracted claims that the ...

Labaton Sucharow Adds Ex-SEC Lawyer Thomas to Start Whistleblower Practice

Labaton Sucharow LLP hired former US Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Jordan A. Thomas to start the New York-based law firm's whistle-blower representation practice. ...

Firm once known as Blackwater faces another suit

A current worker and a former employee of the security contractor previously known as Blackwater have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, the second such suit filed against the firm, according to documents unsealed Thursday. ...

Civil grand jury: whistleblower program "broken"

Just about everything connected to San Francisco's whistleblower program is broken, according to a scathing and disputed report released today by the city's civil grand jury. Controller Ben Rosenfield is all smiles here, but he contends some of the ...

Bus manufacturer settles whistle-blower case

An OSHA whistleblower investigation found that the employee was illegally terminated for refusing to work under unsafe conditions. When the company refused to reinstate the employee, the Labor Department's Office of the Solicitor filed suit in the US ...

Whistleblower Claims Company Buried Hazardous Waste In Forest

A former employee of Idaho-based Eagle Feather Construction Company is blowing the whistle on that firm, accusing it of burying outhouse debris laced with chemicals and human waste in a pristine meadow of the Roosevelt National Forest. ...

State representative asks for school "Whistle-blower Hotline" on tests ...

Michael P. McGeehan called on the state education secretary Tuesday to create a confidential, statewide "Whistle-blower Hotline" to encourage school staffers to report testing irregularities. In a letter to Secretary Ronald Tomalis, the Northeast ...

Judge clears path for whistleblower claims by fired LSU scientist and Katrina

former Louisiana State University hurricane expert — allegedly fired because he was critical of the Army Corps of Engineers — a glimmer of hope in his two-year-old fight against LSU, ruling that Ivor van Heerden's whistleblower claims can proceed ...

Whistleblower 9: Woman Goes Unpaid After Working For Group

But Eyewitness News anchor Scott Wickersham did some digging and, in a Whistleblower 9 investigation, he found both of the people running the organization have criminal records and that one is wanted by police. When Jennifer Neel moved to Kannapolis ...

Jury Finds That Whistleblower Was Fired for Participating in State ...

On July 13, 2011, a jury rendered its verdict in Williamson v. Ciena Healthcare Management and G&K Management d/b/a Omni Continuing Care. The jury found that the Defendants fired Plaintiff, Elizabeth Williamson, ...

Court-martial for soldier accused of assaulting drug whistle-blower in Afghanistan

Dre Leblanc said he intends to show at a court-martial that Sgt. Darren Jones of Pomona, Calif., was part of conspiracies to harm Afghans and to intimidate a whistleblower who led Army investigators to the platoon. Jones is accused of joining others in ...

Petters whistleblower Deanna Coleman near release

Deanna Coleman, the whistleblower whose confession brought down the $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme engineered by former Wayzata businessman Tom Petters and others, is back in Minnesota in anticipation of her August release from prison. ...

Caterpillar Accused of Demoting Tax Whistleblower Bloomberg

Caterpillar sold and shipped spare parts globally from an Illinois warehouse while improperly attributing at least $5.6 billion of profits from those sales to a unit in Geneva, according to a suit filed...

Death of Whistleblower Is Test for Tunisia's New Rulers

...also providing a basis for long-term stability and integrity, is a big one.” A version of this article appeared in print on July 7, 2011, in The International Herald Tribune with the headline: Death of Whistleblower Is Test for Tunisia's New Rulers...

Anonymous group creates whistleblower sites

A subgroup of the Anonymous hacker group has launched two WikiLeaks-type Web sites where insiders and other hackers can expose sensitive information from governments and corporations. The LocalLeaks.tk site is for information related to ...

UC whistle-blower to speak at East Bay library

The result is the book "Whistleblower," which was released last year. It's both memoir and mystery and is a first-person account of both the crime involving Beverly Benford and the uphill battle Joy had to wage to do the right thing. ...

Will Lyles: Recruiting Whistleblower

Is this another case of Yahoo! Sports doing what the NCAA is supposed to be doing? Perhaps, but either way Will Lyles has gone on the record at length with Charles Robinson and Dan Wetzel of ...

Nuclear whistle-blower backed by watchdog agency

Engineer Walter Tamosaitis was sidelined by his bosses after raising concerns about the risks of dealing with radioactive waste near Hanford, Wash. A government agency supports him after a yearlong inquiry. Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies before ...

Los Angeles Times The Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem: Whistle Blower?

So when the bishop lashed out at PB Jefferts Schori, he hinted darkly in an e-mail to VOL that he might just blow the whistle on the leadership of the church and write a tell all article, possibly even a book, with his staff, on the secrecy, ...

 

 

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