In the past decade, through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and the McCaskill amendment, the Federal Government has taken significant strides to improve whistleblower protections in the workplace in an attempt to cut down on fraud, resuscitate the economy, and protect workers’ rights.  This sentiment has begun to trickle down [...]

With a $30 billion price tag attached, and $700 billion trading hands, the need for effective oversight and transparency in the administration of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is hard to exaggerate.  Designed in the 11th hour of the Bush administration as a measure to boost the spiraling financial sector during the 2008 recession, [...]

Last week, the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General issued a troubling report on the state of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Whistleblower Protection Program.  Though the program was designed to prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who report safety or health violations to OSHA, and to provide safe avenues of [...]

A Senate report released yesterday entitled “Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan,” has drawn much media attention and public concern to the lack of oversight of private military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Strikingly, the report found these contractors, such as ArmorGroup and EOD Technology, regularly employ security personnel [...]

Last week, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the Federal government’s investigative and prosecutorial agency that is meant to operate as a secure channel for disclosures of whistleblower complains, confirmed the allegations of Robert Spahr, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspector, that the FAA had repeatedly ignored his complaints of regular safety violations by [...]