Members had advocated blacklisting Russian officials linked to the death of whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky.
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But a single whistle-blower with a conscience can also turn your entire organization inside out.
As with many whistle-blower complaints, the person filing this matter asked not to be identified.
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That requires company cooperation--unlikely to be forthcoming when a company is in trouble--or a whistle-blower.
The Obama administration is arguing that Assange is neither a journalist nor a whistle-blower.
The whistle-blower is also entitled to reinstatement to the position prior to the retaliation.
Earlier this month, another whistle-blower document, Cryptome.org, was hacked and had its files temporarily deleted.
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An Iraqi whistle-blower said insurgents had threatened to kill his predecessor and are now threatening him.
Last August the SEC opened an office mandated by Dodd-Frank that is dedicated to examining whistle-blower complaints.
Under this statute, the SEC has complete discretion as to whether to provide a reward to the whistle-blower.
He takes a daily stroll with Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistle-blower who is serving a ten-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud.
The criminal provision makes it a felony to retaliate against a protected whistle-blower.
Or the one about the London metals trader turned whistle-blower who alleged JPMorgan Chase is suppressing the silver price?
This could include training policies, whistle-blower programs, internal tone-from-the-top communications and so forth.
In exchange, the Justice Department declined to join two whistle-blower lawsuits against St.
Meanwhile, the federal government is evaluating whether it will intervene in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by a former Armstrong teammate.
This so-called qui tam case allows the resources of the federal government to intervene on the side of a whistle-blower.
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The Justice Department declined Tuesday to comment on potential civil action against Armstrong, saying the whistle-blower suit is under court seal.
To receive the reward, the whistle-blower must supply information that leads to a successful suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And in July 2009, whistle-blower site Wikileaks posted a note from an anonymous source describing a nuclear accident in Natanz.
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Last summer a joint task force of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees concluded the SEC botched things, retaliating against a whistle-blower.
If the whistle-blower discloses their identity, it is possible to dig further in the information provided and possibly find further relevant details.
However, only about half were confident of the effectiveness of whistle-blower hotlines.
In January of 2011, German former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg plans to publish a book detailing multiple years inside the controversial whistle-blower organization.
Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, came to Britain in 2000 after turning whistle-blower on the FSB, the KGB's successor.
Paramedics in the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) are being let down by "very poor management", a whistle-blower has told the BBC.
Mr. Rothschild subsequently claimed to have been passed information by a whistle-blower that he said showed evidence of financial irregularities at Bumi Resources.
The problem is that these whistle-blower programs have not been sufficient.
Now a spy, traitor or whistle-blower can put gigabytes of data on a fingernail-sized card and pass them on anonymously, irretrievably and all but instantly.
The whistle-blower was Matthew Lee, a Lehman Brothers senior vice president.
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