The Security and Exchange Commission announced a whistleblower award of over $3.5 million to a company employee whose tip bolstered an ongoing investigation with additional evidence of wrongdoing that strengthened the SEC’s case. By law, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose information that might directly or indirectly reveal a whistleblower’s identity. ...

In August 2007, after a year of soliciting bids from companies nationwide like Federal Express and UPS, the Pentagon awarded a $1.635 billion contract to Menlo Worldwide Government Services of San Mateo and related firms to handle all Defense Department shipping in the United States. At the time, the contract was labeled by the trade newspaper Transport Topics as “the largest logistics outsourc...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on April 4, 2016 that it awarded over $10 million to a whistleblower.  This is the largest award made by the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program. The development serves as an important reminder.  Companies are generally aware of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the protections and incentives it...

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 la...

A nuclear engineer who was fired by his contractor employer in 2013 after he warned of waste disposal safety risks at the Hanford, Wash., nuclear site agreed to accept a $4.1 million settlement. Walter Tamosaitis, according to an Associated Press report on Wednesday, settled with his former employer, San Francisco-based subcontractor URS Inc. (now AECOM), which had removed him from his post as ...