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…
Questcor Whistleblower Receives $47m Reward
The United States Department of Justice settled a case against Irish-American pharmaceutical manufacturer Mallinckrodt ARD LLC (formerly Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) for failing to pay the…
Big Four Accounting Firms Face Regulatory Scrutiny
Regulators are carrying out a sweeping investigation of conflicts of interest at the nation’s largest accounting firms, according to a new report published in the…
Exclusive: Whistleblower Exposes Alleged Goldman Sachs Bribery Scheme
Goldman Sachs is a Wall Street investment bank so massively large and ever-present that at one point the media nicknamed them “the giant vampire squid”…
Bankers Responsible for Defrauding $4b from Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund Could Escape Accountability
The long running saga of Roger Ng and his former boss at Goldman Sachs, Tim Leissner, and their complicity in the scheme to bilk more…
Deutsche Bank Can’t Seem to Keep its Story Straight with DOJ
Deutsche Bank can’t seem to stay out of trouble – much of it of their own making. On Friday, the corruption-riddled bank disclosed that it…