2014 was a record-breaking year for whistleblowers, including both the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of cases under the False Claims Act (FCA) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s prosecution of cases...more
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Whistleblowers
As we have discussed in earlier posts, the Administrative Review Board (ARB) has, over the last couple of years, issued a number of opinions signaling a decidedly employee-friendly interpretation of the whistleblower statutes...more
As you may have read in our previous blog post, prudent employers should embrace the “righteous whistleblower” in service of their culture of compliance. But what is an employer to do when a whistleblower has engaged in...more
There has been much ink, real and digital, spilled on speculating about how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) whistleblower program may affect companies’ internal compliance programs and the volume of...more
Federal agencies charged with investigating whistleblower claims—and in some cases, bringing enforcement actions—are looking hard at what companies are doing to create a “culture of compliance.” Failing to cultivate a culture...more