On June 7, the former Chief Financial Officer of Dallas-based EarthWater Limited (EarthWater) pleaded guilty to 22 crimes related to a multimillion-dollar high-yield investment fraud…
Abbott’s whistleblower alerted FDA about baby formula a year before
A former Abbott Nutrition employee submitted a whistle-blower complaint with the US Department of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration against the company’s Sturgis, Michigan,…
Google suspends whistleblower who claimed AI Bot had become sentient
According to media sources, a Google senior software engineer turned whistleblower was suspended on Monday (June 13) after posting transcripts of a discussion with artificial…
FEC Considers Charging Trump Campaign with Money Laundering
Federal regulators have deadlocked on a complaint that Donald Trump’s 2020 White House campaign laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in spending through corporate entities…
Wall Street Firms Earned Billions on Fraudulent SPAC Listings
Investment banks have raked in billions of dollars by feeding the frenzy for blank-check companies, and they have done so largely without risking any of…
SEC is Beefing Up its Crypto Fraud Unit
The Securities and Exchange Commission is vastly expanding its fight against cryptocurrency fraud by hiring more than a dozen new employees to combat cybercrime, the…
British Authorities Reveal that KYC Compliance is a Joke
Challenger banks must improve how they assess financial crime risk following a review by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that found some fail to…
Deutsche Bank HQ Raided by Police in Money Laundering Investigation
Prosecutors, federal police and other officials searched Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt on Friday in a move Germany’s largest lender said was linked to suspicions of…
Elon Musk’s War on the SEC Reaches New Heights
Elon Musk called the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “shameless puppets” of Wall Street short-sellers on Monday in a string of tweets describing his short-lived…
‘Gaslit’ TV Show Brings Whistleblowers Front and Center
Following in the vein of investigative favorites gone before, such as The Big Short and Spotlight, Gaslit on Starz is a new political thriller tackling…