Jason Zuckerman

Whistleblowers Can Play a Critical Role in the Biden Administration’s Fight Against Corruption

Whistleblowers Can Play a Critical Role in the Biden Administration’s Fight Against Corruption

Today the White House issued an anti-corruption directive to federal agencies to prioritize efforts to…

3 years ago

Senate Enacts Legislation to Fix Funding Crisis at the CFTC Whistleblower Office

As reported in a recent Wall Street Journal article, the CFTC Whistleblower Program is confronting…

3 years ago

Defense Contractor Whistleblower Retains $1 Million Compensatory Damages Verdict

Update: On July 22, 2022, the Tenth Circuit affirmed the jury verdict and the decisions…

3 years ago

Sixth Circuit Holds that False Claims Act Prohibits Post-Employment Retaliation

  When Congress enacted the whistleblower protection provision of the False Claims Act, it recognized…

3 years ago

Top 10 Ways Companies Cook the Books and How to Get an SEC Whistleblower Reward for Reporting Accounting Fraud

  Companies “cook the books” when they use accounting schemes and tricks to falsify their…

3 years ago

DOL Judge Awards Airline Pilot $500,000 in Compensatory Damages in AIR21 Whistleblower Retaliation Case

In a decision finding that Delta violated the anti-retaliation provision of the AIR21 whistleblower protection…

4 years ago

FY2021 Defense Authorization Bars Defense Contractors from Silencing Whistleblowers

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA) that was enacted on January…

4 years ago

Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Rewards Law Could Be Game Changer

The annual Department of Defense authorization that Congress passed last week includes the Anti-Money Laundering…

4 years ago

Congress Strengthens Whistleblower Protections for Pipeline Workers

The omnibus appropriations bill that President Trump signed into law on December 27, 2020 includes…

4 years ago

Anti-Money Laundering Act Establishes Whistleblower Reward Program and Protects Whistleblowers from Retaliation

Congress has passed the the FY2021 Department of Defense Authorization bill, which includes the Anti-Money…

4 years ago

CFTC Whistleblower Program Helping to Drive Record-Level Enforcement Activity

The FY20 reports of the CFTC Whistleblower Program and CFTC Division of Enforcement reveal that…

4 years ago

DC Council Enacts Tax Fraud Whistleblower Qui Tam Law

On December 1, 2020, the DC Council passed the False Claims Amendment Act of 2020,…

4 years ago