Apple is broadly regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious and aspirational brands, a popular cultural appeal that has allowed them, year after year,…
Microsoft Whistleblower Dishes on Widespread FCPA Abuses in Africa and the Middle East
In a recent essay published on the Lioness platform, Yasser Elabd, a former executive with Microsoft, provides a richly detailed expose of misconduct by the…
Whistleblower Accuses Hertz of Using Police as ‘Repo Men’
Rental car company Hertz is under fire from lawmakers after hundreds of customers say they were pulled over by police and told the rental car…
Sens. Grassley and Warren Focus on Strengthening SEC Whistleblower Protections
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have introduced legislation to strengthen whistleblower protections at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Their bipartisan…
CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam Celebrate Success of Whistleblower Program
During a keynote speech earlier this month, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Rostin Behnam celebrated the success of the organization’s whistleblower program,…
US Treasury Needs Help from Whistleblower to Track Down Hidden Russian Assets
The US Treasury Department has established a new program, the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program, to incentivize whistleblowers to identify and help recover Russian oligarchs’…
Francis Haugen Wants Civil Society to Have Access to Platform Data Under New Law
Francis Haugen became known worldwide as one of the most famous whistleblowers when she stepped forward to disclose tens of thousands of internal Facebook documents…
Insider Trading at Twilio Results in Charges against 7 Defendants
Three employees at San Francisco cloud communications company Twilio are among seven people charged in connection with a $1 million insider trading scheme, the Securities…
Fighting Covid-19 Relief Fraud Will Depend on Whistleblowers
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US government unleashed billions of dollars of stimulus and aid programs into the economy, with a significant…
US Treasury Is Seeking Help from Whistleblowers to Go After Russian Oligarch Wealth
Ever since Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Ukraine, sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle have been ramping up, with various federal agencies chasing down…