An oil-and-gas company that allegedly retaliated against an internal whistleblower and used illegal separation agreements agreed to pay the SEC a $1.4 million penalty.
Oklahoma-based SandRidge Energy Inc. fired an employee who raised concerns inside the company about how it calculated its publicly reported oil-and-gas reserves.
SandRidge then put language in the employee’s separation agreement that prohibited participating in any government investigation or disclosing information potenti...
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Environmental Whistleblowers
Environmental Whistleblower Jury Awarded $750K in Damages From State
Years ago, Dan Collins, a Louisiana state contractor, exposed alleged corruption then one business door after another slammed shut. A December 14th ruling said he was wronged.
It took five years to build a case, but a jury said Dan Collins is owed more than half a million dollars in damages he said were inflicted when he blew the whistle on a state-funded project that he believed violated laws.
I got online, checked the state's mineral activity and surprise, almost shocked, that at the...
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