Sentences with phrase «whistleblowers who»

Democracy depends on transparency, and we are committed to protecting whistleblowers who share information with us.

Members of the official Brexit campaign during the EU referendum may have committed criminal offences relating to overspending and collusion, according to lawyers advising whistleblowers who worked inside the organisation.

Campion, a partner at Polley Faith LLP in Toronto, says she has questioned whether the prospect of financial rewards will have an impact on the number of whistleblowers who come forward, the quality of the information and the seriousness of the conduct reported.

In January, the SEC announced an award of $ 7 million to be split between three whistleblowers who helped the SEC prosecute an investment scheme.

In the case of whistleblowers who allege misconduct within a company, there is a good chance they will have brought forward the complaint at the same time to the relevant regulator, says Cobb.

Comment: One commenter suggested that a notice of information practices that omits disclosure for voluntary reporting of fraud will chill internal whistleblowers who will be led to believe — falsely — that they would violate federal privacy law, and be lawfully subject to sanction by their employer, if they reported fraud to health oversight agencies.

We also protect the rights of whistleblowers who recognize foul play and want to do the right thing.

The attorneys at the New Hampshire Employee Rights Group have more than 50 years of combined experience assisting whistleblowers who have experienced illegal retaliation.

There is also a potential chilling effect which this new rule may have on whistleblowers who could be faced with disclosure of their identities.

Juan Non-Volokh: «Title IX Protects Whistleblowers: Today's Supreme Court opinion in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education holds, 5 - 4, that Title IX protects whistleblowers who accuse their universities of...»

The only recourse for whistleblowers who face reprisals from their bosses is through the Manitoba Labour Board.

During the course of the investigation, the Committee heard from whistleblowers who confirmed that, among other flaws in the study, it was rushed for publication to support President Obama's climate change agenda.

Each week, Cesar is called in by whistleblowers who tell on the four - legged thugs who scare neighbors, clients, friends and even family members!

The Connecticut - based writer follows up her slim, historical debut, The Lifeboat, with a sprawling contemporary story about a two would - be whistleblowers who find themselves questioning the beliefs of a lifetime.

The charter system is so unregulated that oversight often comes from whistleblowers who feel disturbed enough, and courageous enough, to report abuses.

1971 (Unrated) Freedom of Information documentary recounting the break - in at a Pennsylvania FBI office by whistleblowers who found proof of the existence of an illegal surveillance program monitoring the movements of thousands of U.S. citizens.

The quietly powerful documentary National Bird, directed by Sonia Kennebeck, reveals the story of three whistleblowers who speak about their...

Research by whistleblowers who exposed gay canvassing study as fraudulent show transgender biases can be changed

Hodge said: the department had been forced to follow up allegations brought to the committee's attention after MPs heard evidence from whistleblowers who alleged that private companies were at the centre of fraudulent activity.

He says the Panama Papers show how corruption is «scared of the spotlight» and urges new protection for whistleblowers who he says are under great danger in many countries.

And, if that wasn't enough, the audit found the Urban League had run off all eight whistleblowers who had brought the problem to the comptroller's attention.

«We need whistleblowers who possess the truth,» said Barbara Warren, a member of the anti-fracking group Frack Action, as she handed a DEC worker a flyer headlined «Calling All Whistleblowers» that contained a telephone number, an email address and a mailing address for anyone to call who was willing to provide information.

«The governor is sending the wrong message to women when he allows his hand - picked appointments to demote and punish whistleblowers who come forward — he needs to clean house at DCJS,» Molinaro said.

In fact, in small layoffs, it's the whistleblowers who spoke up (inconveniently) or anyone who made one of their bosses (or their egos) uncomfortable who are often the first to go.

Earlier this week, Vice reported on a Wells Fargo whistleblower who found employees opening up fake accounts as early as 2005, and contacted Tolstedt about the problem in 2006.

Eric Ben - Artzi, the whistleblower who filed the complaint, is not alone.

Last month, a whistleblower who previously worked for Cambridge Analytica came forward to claim that the British - based firm had used a third - party app to obtain private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without users» knowledge.

In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica — for use in the in development in psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company has taken the unusual step of suspending the account of the whistleblower who helped expose the issues.

The influential public accounts committee concluded that Google's Irish employees simply processed the bills, after hearing evidence from a former employee turned whistleblower who lifted the lid on what he described as Google's «immoral» tax schemes.

The whistleblower who launched the scandal, Christopher Wylie, formerly of Cambridge Analytica, said on Twitter he had accepted invitations to testify before U.S. and UK lawmakers.

The whistleblower who exposed Russia's systematic doping of Olympic athletes has been warned by U.S. officials that Russian agents may be inside the United States looking for him and that new security measures needed to be taken to insure his safety, the lawyer for the whistleblower tells Yahoo News.

Kogan also hit out at the whistleblower who first revealed details of the story to the press, Christopher Wylie.

Cambridge Analytica used the personal Facebook data of more than 50 million users, acquired through a third party, to create profiles of prospective voters and «microtarget» persuasive voting messages to them, according to a whistleblower who told his story to The Guardian and The New York Times.

Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who worked with Cambridge Analytica, revealed to the Observer:

Jennifer Robinson, another of McGowan's lawyers, said after the hearing that «Rose is a brave whistleblower who has been the subject of a vicious vilification campaign by one of the most powerful men, in the most powerful industries in this country.»

Christopher Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica and now a whistleblower who exposed how the data firm harvested data from millions of Facebook users, poses for a portrait Wednesday in a London law firm's office.

Report from Zurich Film Festival 1 October: New Film Honors Nestlé Whistleblower Who Exposed Corporate Deception

According to Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who worked for Cambridge Analytica during the election, the company mined the data of 50 million Facebook profiles.

Facebook said Monday it has hired a firm to conduct a «comprehensive audit» of Cambridge Analytica and the whistleblower who set off a weekend firestorm for the social media giant.

There seems to be no end in sight to the controversies surrounding the payment of the 5 % commission to the whistleblower who gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) information that led to the recovery of $ 43.4 million, N23.3 million and 27,800 Euros found in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, on April 22, 2017.

The police action followed the arrest 10 days ago of a government whistleblower who allegedly leaked four documents to Green, who then passed them to the press.

The whistleblower who launched the scandal, Christopher Wylie, formerly of Cambridge Analytica, said on Twitter he had accepted invitations to testify before US and UK lawmakers.

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed the NSA's program for spying on US citizens, tweeted that Yahoo users should close their accounts in the wake of the revelations.

She is currently in production playing the female lead opposite Joseph Gordon - Levitt in Oliver Stone's Snowden, the real - life story of the Edward Snowden, the 28 year - old hacker - turned - whistleblower who leaked classified information from the NSA about surveillance programs run by the U.S.

So, we decided that he was a whistleblower who had been fired because he warned that the ball in Times Square was going to get stuck someday.

That is the basis for the story of an American whistleblower who heads to Russia and the back and forth between the leaker and his lawyer as he waits while that country considers his request for asylum.

The rest of the cast is magnificent, and also expansive: Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the lead reporter on the story; Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield and David Cross as Howard Simons, other top scribes; Bruce Greenwood as Bob McNamara, former Defense Secretary and personal friend of Graham; Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe, Graham's right - hand man and rock; Bradley Whitford as the (overly) timid voice of caution; Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the papers; Jesse Plemons as the young lawyer brought into defend the Post; and Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, fierce competitor at the Times, and another Graham friend.

As usual, Spielberg is a master juggler of moving parts in a story with multiple themes and many supporting characters, including the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg (in a pensive performance by Matthew Rhys) and hard - charging Post reporter Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk).

Based on the books «Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website» and «WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy,» and penned by Josh Singer («The West Wing,» «Fringe «-RRB-, the film will present Assange as a whistleblower who apparently let power get to his head and let the ethics of his work slide, much to the chagrin of his right hand man Daniel Domscheit - Berg (Bruhl), who also just happened to write that «Inside Julian Assange» book.

Russian politics are in tatters when veteran detective McClane shows up in the nation's capital, and learns that his son is working undercover to protect Komarov - a notorious whistleblower who some powerful people would like to see silenced.