By Kristen Rasmussen | September 7, 2017
Santa Fe, New Mexico's St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and its Irving, Texas-based partner Christus Health have agreed to pay $12.24 million plus interest to settle allegations that they made illegal donations to county governments under a discontinued state matching program, and a whistleblower will receive $2.25 million for his or her share of the recovery.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 6, 2017
A federal labor appeals panel has revived a whistleblower's claims against the defense contractor Exelis Systems Corp., ruling that the employee can allege retaliation even though he raised concerns about unlawful conduct outside the United States and was fired while overseas.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 24, 2017
Wells Fargo, represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, mounts an appeal to challenge the wrongful-termination claims of a former branch manager in California who alleged she was fired after blowing the whistle on bankers opening new accounts without proper authorization. OSHA ordered the bank to reinstate the whistleblower, and pay $577,500 in back pay and damages.
By Michael Battle, Roscoe Howard and Patrick Miles | August 10, 2017
The early months of the Trump administration have brought about the resignations of the two most prominent lawyers behind the U.S. Department of Justice's…
By C. Ryan Barber | August 7, 2017
Two weeks after being ordered to reinstate a branch manager fired for raising concerns about improper sales practices, Wells Fargo & Co. has acknowledged it could have a much larger whistleblower problem in the aftermath of a $185 million settlement with federal regulators and Los Angeles last year over allegations the bank opened up to 2.1 million unauthorized accounts.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 4, 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to settle a 12-year-old whistleblower case accusing the bank of cheating veterans by charging them illegal fees when refinancing their home loans.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 27, 2017
After a nearly three-month dry period for whistleblower bounties, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week awarded a pair of tipsters who helped the agency bring successful enforcement actions. To approve the latest award, the SEC made an exception that it has used at least once before to reward a tipster who began working with the agency before the 2010 passage of Dodd-Frank reform law.
By Sue Reisinger and C. Ryan Barber | July 25, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday awarded nearly $2.5 million to a government worker who helped regulators launch an investigation and eventually crack down on a company's misconduct, the first such whistleblower bounty issued to an employee of a government agency.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to reinstate a former branch manager fired for blowing the whistle on three subordinates who were opening new accounts for customers without their knowledge—the conduct at issue in the bank's $185 million settlement last year with federal regulators and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
By C. Ryan Barber | June 28, 2017
The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower office defended broad anti-retaliation protections for corporate insiders on Wednesday, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider when employees are entitled to those safeguards under the Dodd-Frank Act.
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