The federal government settled charges with Honeywell that it failed to properly test packaging for sensitive parts used by the Defense Department and NASA. Honeywell was accused of violating the False Claims Act in testing of electrostatic protective metallic sheets that were to package more than 186,000 sensitive parts. Honeywell paid nearly 15 percent of [...]

For the first time ever, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act orders bank to reinstate Finance Chief Powers brought in under Sarbanes-Oxley to protect whistleblowers have seen a former chief financial officer of a small Virginia bank ordered back to work. The bank was ordered to reinstate Welch to his job on an interim basis or offer him [...]

A New Jersey hospital chain will pay $265 million to settle a pair of whistleblower lawsuits that claimed it had systematically inflated charges to Medicare patients in order to obtain enhanced reimbursements. The settlement by Saint Barnabas Corp., the largest health care system in New Jersey, is likely the first in a series of similar [...]

Del Monte Fresh Foods has reached a $400,000 settlement with eight former employees who claimed they were fired for complaining about safety problems. The case originated from a dispute over a shift that was scheduled to start at midnight on New Year’s Day 2005. As the holiday drew near, some workers at Del Monte’s food [...]

The federal government settled charges with Honeywell that it failed to properly test packaging for sensitive parts used by the Defense Department and NASA. Honeywell was accused of violating the False Claims Act in testing of electrostatic protective metallic sheets that were to package more than 186,000 sensitive parts. According to protected court documents, Honeywell [...]

The Supreme Court bolstered the government’s power to discipline public employees who make charges of official misconduct, ruling that the First Amendment does not protect those who blow the whistle in the course of their official duties. By a vote of 5 to 4, the court ruled that the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office [...]

According to a BBC investigation and a senior “whistleblowing” bank executive, U.K. are being accused of “putting profit before human life” by encouraging customers to borrow so heavily that some commit suicide under the mounting pressure of debt. Since 2004, at least eight people have killed themselves after their debts spiraled out of control. The [...]

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced settlements with title insurance companies Fidelity National Title Group Inc. and First American Corp. over illegal payments to favored customers. Spitzer has been pursuing an investigation into the insurance industry for the past two years, to seek title insurance rate reductions of 15 percent for all New York [...]

A former high-level employee for Kodak’s online service claims the company was planning to deceive millions of customers by forever altering their family photos. Maya Raber was in charge of developing software for Kodak’s popular Easy Share Gallery in Emeryville for three years. However when the company came up with a plan to save money [...]

In the case of a wrongly accused employee, an AutoZone manager tried to do everything by the book. That ended being part of the problem. Joaquin Robles was accused of stealing money from AutoZone. Robles manager followed all company manual procedures and suspended Robles based on his behavior. When Robles returned to work a few [...]

Nine drug industry executives and five companies are being charged over an alleged conspiracy to defraud the National Health Service (NHS) of £100 million by fixing the prices of two of the country’s most commonly used medicines. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has begun criminal proceedings in relation to the pricing and supply of the [...]

China is launching a website for the public to report corrupt officials. The move is intended to show that the ruling Communist Party takes complaints seriously at a time when many say they face retaliation for reporting abuses. The Chinese government has punished thousands of officials in an effort to stem graft and other abuses [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has decided that the whistleblowing protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”) do not extend to foreign citizens working outside the United States for foreign subsidiaries of companies covered by SOX. In the Court’s ruling, the first decision on this issue by a U.S. Court of Appeals, [...]

A Jackson County (Missouri) jury awarded a former logistics company employee, Kendra Lynn, $6.8 million in a sexual harassment verdict. The jury called for TNT Logistics North America Inc. and Lynn’s former boss, Michael Gill, to pay $50,000 in actual damages and $6.75 million in punitive damages. The case is believed to be the first [...]