Sentences with phrase «as whistle blower»

Such laws are known as whistle blower statutes.

Qui Tams / Whistleblowers The False Claims Act, also known as the Whistle Blower Act or a Qui Tam action, is intended to encourage people to come forward with information and assist the government in stopping the waste of government funds.

Nonetheless, warmistas such as DeSmog Blog, which published the purloined Heartland documents, applaud Gleick as a whistle blower, and stubbornly insist the fake strategy memo isgenuine, loudly denounced Climategate as the work of an «illegal hack» of emails «stolen» from the CRU server.

Mr Cantley is reported to have acted as a whistle blower against the school, although DFS said this took place after dismissal proceedings had started against him, not before.

Eventually, the FBI comes to McDeere and tries to recruit him as a whistle blower, and his response is somewhat unorthodox.

In addition, «Tigers» is hard - hitting and controversial as it shows the reality of life as a whistle blower as well as analysing the actions MNCs and the behaviour of governments, communities and media groups which are often too scared to hold them accountable.

According to him, «While the blackmailers claimed that the contracts were awarded by the Director General of the Agency, Muhammad Sani - Sidi, NEMA has never awarded contract of such huge and imaginary sums for car park and landscaping and challenge the blackmailers parading themselves as whistle blowers to come up with their facts.»

Not exact matches

The once - ignored Bernie Madoff whistle - blower got a ton of credibility when his warnings to the SEC played out exactly as he had predicted — and feared.

Once dismissed by many European authorities, he and other whistle - blowers are now being courted as the region's governments struggle to fill their coffers and to stem a populist uprising against tax evasion and corruption.

Hugh MacDonald Slogan: None Elected experience: MLA for Edmonton - Gold Bar from 1997 to present Background: Since stepping into his role as the opposition labour critic during his first - term and making headlines over the government's shaky handling of rotting pine shakes roofing and lack of whistle - blower protection, Hugh MacDonald earned a reputation as a dogged critic of the Tories.

Barclays Bank will need to figure out how the actions of its chief executive, James E. Staley, will affect its culture as it deals with the revelation last week that the British authorities are investigating him for trying to unmask the identity of an anonymous whistle - blower.

According to Judith P. Swazey and Stephen R. Scher, «The whistle - blower may be — and within his group usually is — perceived and treated as a Judas Iscariot who has committed a disloyal, indeed treasonable act» (Whistleblowing in Biomedical Research [1982], p. 179) The problem is frequently compounded by a sort of double - agent masquerade: some nay sayers, looking for credentials, claim to be whistleblowers.

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

«By the time we entered tranche two of our program, a much larger group, it was around 60 per cent... Based on declining whistle - blower activity over time, and other observations to date, we expect we will see this non-compliance rate decline further as we complete the final tranche of audits during 2018 - 19.»

More than anything, it shows the need for protection of whistle blowers, such as Syed Aamir Raza, the real salesman, when they seek help from UN organisations responsible for protecting health.

«As parliamentarians who often speak to whistle - blowers — from campaigners whose groups have been infiltrated by the police to those exposing corruption in government departments — this judgement is deeply worrying,» Baroness Jones added

New York State Assemblyman Andrew Goodell is accusing the Cuomo Administration of expanding a whistle blower program as a form of punishment to 51 Upstate counties that have passed legislation opposing New York's Safe Act.

Since Nigerians have shown their supports for President Muhammadu Buhari's war on corruption and the extension of the campaign to security agencies, legislators and judiciary, his recent directive for the probe of members of the executive arm as well as the 5 % rewards for the whistle - blower's efforts on recovered loots are a welcome development (Link 5).

Whistle blowers aren't compensated in any meaningful way, they'll likely have to find a new job in a completely different industry and even then their trustworthiness would likely be seen as a liability by any company hiring them.

The head of VW's Engineering and Environmental Office in the US Stuart Johnson has also been identified as a whistle - blower.

Specifically there is no legislation protecting whistle - blowers from retaliation in the EU and Germany as there is in the US, but I don't know how much that would have affected the outcome.

There have been two US employees who have been identified as whistle - blowers for VW in the time since I posted this question.

At Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Brooklyn, several anonymous whistle - blowers accused school administrators of pushing for higher scores through a practice city teachers refer to as «scrubbing,» in which scorers reread essays or other open - response questions to search for extra points.

In a statement by its Press Officer, Manzo Eziekiel, the agency denies ever awarding billion Naira Contract for landscaping and motorpark as being alleged by the false whistle blowers.

«The government is at a crossroad as the whistle - blower and the EFCC are now shying away from telling Nigerians who own the money because undeniable evidence links the money to the proceeds from the sale of turbines by the former Governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.

«EFCC (will be) claiming to have received a tip - off from a whistle - blower in your state alerting the agency of a «large huge» amount of money of different currencies in the said apartment belonging to you, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a proceed of which is likely to be (considered as) illegally obtained and acquired, which constitute abuse of office and corruption.»

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

The lawyer, who spoke with journalists on the premises of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Friday, described as untrue the claim by the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, that the whistle - blower had been paid.

We will not tolerate harassment in our party and we urge anyone to contact the Chief Executive or use our confidential whistle - blower procedure if they have issues they wish to raise as a result of Channel 4's report.

The Tor Project counts former National Security Agency whistle - blower Edward Snowden and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as two of its most high - profile supporters.

Exasperated, Nesbitt finally filed for protection as a federal whistle - blower with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

If he loses his nerve in the internecine conflict over whether to run an explosive interview with tobacco industry whistle - blower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), it's because he's reluctant to be remembered as the reporter who destroyed his own network.

Sony Pictures Classics have provided us with our very first look at Liam Neeson as Deep Throat, the infamous whistle blower in the first...

is good, clean fun and Matt Damon, in the lead role as real - life biochemist / whistle - blower / embezzler and most unreliable narrator Mark Whitacre, has never been better.

Of course, there has to be a fictional Hollywood take on the true story as well, and Oliver Stone has taken it upon himself to dramatize Snowden's tale, enlisting Joseph Gordon Levitt to play the whistle blower.

Opening this weekend is Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, in which Cumberbatch stars as Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who facilitated whistle - blowers» anonymity in exposing government secrets and corporate crimes.

We need a collaboration of whistle - blowers to highlight this corruption as well as the extortionate nepotism and cronyism which is occurring in academies too.

The British government maintains the memoir is mostly fiction, while many organizations hail him as a courageous whistle - blower.

On the mortgage origination side the Corporate Whistle Blower Center is looking for major bank, mortgage banker, home builder mortgage managers, or insiders, who can prove their bank, or mortgage lender employer was committing appraisal fraud, as well as gouging borrowers on fees, or not complying with specific rules that govern Fannie, Freddie, FHA, or VA mortgages.

However, for this to be a common practice, rather than a rare exception, would require a truly enormous and perfect conspiracy of manufacturers, rendering plants, and government, and as of yet no whistle - blower, journalist, or undercover animal rights activist has yet come forward to reveal evidence of any such conspiracy.

Just as Peter Ridd warns us that we can't trust some marine and reef institutes, Bill Johnston is the whistle - blower warning us about the Bureau of Met.

As the whistle - blower here Peter could potentially get billions here.

Anticipating that others will behave in this way, in turn, allows everyone to more confidently invest in denial at t = 0: To avoid this deleterious outcome, organizations and societies will find it desirable to set up ex-ante guarantees such as whistle - blower protections, devil's advocates, constitutional rights to free speech, independence of the press, etc..

The finger points to a whistle - blower and perhaps one with a relatively conservative outlook and naive faith in the BBC (or even, as later, RC as an open forum).

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The use of untraceable proxys, hacking of RC, and the creation dates of many of the files as 1/1/2009 are just a few of the hints that the whistle blower (s) is / are computer literate.

If all those thousands of emails and other documents were leaked by an angry whistle - blower, as now seems likely, it was this story more than any other that he or she wanted the world to see.»

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.

When, suddenly, thanks to a whistle - blower (whom the prominent Illiberals in Congress want prosecuted [thehill.com], BTW), we learn of the massive prosecutorial misconduct (some of it, such as deleting files after receiving Freedom of Information requests, outright criminal), that affects a substantial amount of evidence against us, we move for the «court» to dismiss the entire case.

Most of his posts are aviation - or whistle - blower - related, as per his mission statement.