The United States Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”) released a report today entitled “Blowing the Whistle: Barriers to Federal Employees Making Disclosures.”  In it, the MSPB compared two surveys of how federal employees felt about whistleblowing – one conducted in 1992 which surveyed over 13,000 federal employees, and one conducted in 2010 which surveyed over [...]

Two former officials of the city of Miami are suing the city for retaliation after they were allegedly fired following their cooperation with investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reports the Wall Street Journal today.  Michael Boudreaux, the former city budget director, and Victor Igwe, the longtime [...]