New wave of whistle-blowers could become millionaires. Harry Markopolos, call your office. Under little-noticed new provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, whistle-blowers like Markopolos who alerted the SEC to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme will for the first time be entitled to collect between 10% and 30% of the money recovered by the government. And that could turn a new wave of whistle-blowers, those insiders with proof of financial wrongdoing on Wall Street, into millionaires. "If the law works, whistle-blowers should be rewarded with millions of dollars," said Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistle-blowers Center. "Those whistle-blowers will save investors billions and billions of dollars. " And the promise of so much money changing hands has plaintiff's lawyers chomping at the bit.
On July 23rd, Kohn's center held a briefing for lawyers seeking to understand how to bring the new cases. The new provision comes into law even as the SEC has become more aggressive in awarding tipsters. Defense Contractor Whistleblower Protections. Defense Contractor False Claims Act Whistleblower Protections. Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct. Ethics Philosophy Long-term successful personal and professional relationships depend upon honesty and trustworthiness. ARA has historically promulgated two fundamental principles that underpin our fundamental philosophy on ethics.
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Standards of Conduct. Whistleblower Protection Blog : Whistleblower Lawyer & Attorney : National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund : Whistleblower Protection, Fraud Claims : Washington DC. Whistleblower Support Blog. History, Politics And Current Affairs • View topic - A predictable suicide at Camp Lejeune. A good article that showcases the problems of the care (or more properly, lack of care) for veterans of America's most recent wars. The quote below is an excerpt, but I suggest you go and read the entire thing.
The embedded links in the article go to the Salon.com indexes for Camp Lejeune related issues and issues related to the returning troops. I don't want to hear any bullshit about the liberal media either, because these are the kind of things that you will NOT find in the mainstream media in the US and you hardly find them in any of the pro-war sources either, especially neocon ones. A doctor warned that mental health care for violent, disturbed Marines was inadequate. Sgt. Tom Bagosy proved it Marine Sgt. The military police car that had pulled him over idled on the shoulder a safe distance behind him. The bullet sliced through his jugular vein, traveled through his skull and exited near the top left side of his head. That psychiatrist, Dr. Commander of Camp Lejeune to retire at end of June | lejeune, camp, command - News - Jacksonville Daily News. Marine.
Russian whistle-blowing doctor fears dismissal. Attorney and Potential Case. Department of Defense Whistleblower Program. Aircraft procurement whistleblowing launched the modern Defense whistleblower program. The Department of Defense Whistleblower Program in the United States is a whistleblower protection program within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) whereby DoD personnel are trained on whistleblower rights. The Inspector General's commitment fulfills, in part, the federal mandate to protect whistleblowers. It also administers the Defense Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Program (DICWP), as a sub-mission for the intelligence community.[1] The Inspector General's Defense Criminal Investigative Service also conducts criminal investigations which rely, in part, on Qui Tam relators.
Recent history[edit] In 2009, the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. The DoD IG commits itself to ensuring that whistleblower protection programs succeed in training DoD personnel regarding whistleblower rights. The DoD IG is committed to the objective and timely resolution of each reprisal complaint. Qui tam. National Whistleblowers Center - Attorney Referrals. Tom Devine - National security whistleblowers deserve more protection. Civil libertarians have denounced the April indictment of senior National Security Agency official Thomas Drake for blowing the whistle on NSA mismanagement and its disregard for citizens' privacy rights.
Drake has been charged with misuse of classified documents that were leaked to the media. While the facts in Drake's case are not in, some things are clear: Whistleblowers have no other viable option in the current system. The lack of internal accountability makes leaks inevitable. At a 2006 hearing of the House intelligence committee, then-Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) articulated the best kind of anti-leak policy: We "need to make sure the whistleblower process is an open door, so that these folks are not faced with . . . an environment where they don't have a choice, that they see something they don't like, that they just go, 'Well, I'll just go to the press.' " Now, however, the door is closed.
Worse, shooting the messenger undermines our nation in the fight against terrorism. Marine whistleblower Franz Gayl: Security clearance removal is retaliation. Franz Gayl made a name for himself a few years ago as a Marine Corps whistleblower, a civilian scientist who helped push the Pentagon to shift its Iraqi weapons strategy. Senators called him a hero for disclosures that helped get heavily armored vehicles known as MRAPs to the battlefield. But a few weeks ago, Gayl found himself booted from a room where confidential materials are handled and stripped of his security clearance. His superiors accused him of "a disregard for regulations, a pattern of poor judgment and intentional misconduct" - behavior that they said "indicates you are unreliable and untrustworthy.
" Gayl's alleged offense - described in official documents - was inserting a USB device into a computer containing classified information twice in 2008 and then failing to turn over the device to a supervisor. They first raised this concern in March, and no security leaks have been alleged. Last week, his confrontation accelerated. Science booster Gen.