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First NY False Claims Act Tax Whistleblower Awarded $1.1 Million

Topics: 
USA, Qui tam or False Claims Act, White-collar crime, Victories
Rating: 
2

March 5, 2013

Tailor Mohanbhai “Mohan” Ramchandani and his business corporation, Mohan’s Custom Tailors, Inc., pled guilty to felony charges related to a ten-year scheme to evade payment of New York sales and income taxes.

Mohan will pay $5.5 million to settle separately filed civil claims that were first raised by a whistleblower under New York State’s False Claims Act. The whistleblower was represented by Stephen Weiss of Seeger Weiss in New York. The whistleblower case was filed in September 2012.

UK bridge whistleblower wins tribunal

Topics: 
UK, Whistleblowers, Victories
Rating: 
5

BBC News – February 4, 2013

A man who said he was sacked after raising concerns about the safety of bridges in Milton Keynes has won an industrial tribunal for wrongful dismissal.

George Harlock lost his job as a bridge inspector for Mouchel, which did bridge maintenance for the council. Believing his reports were ignored by bosses, he alerted Milton Keynes Council and was dismissed. Mouchel claimed he was made redundant. A tribunal ruled this was not the case.

'To whistleblow is like a death sentence'

Topics: 
Whistleblowers, Reprisals, Victories
Rating: 
4
The following are selected extracts

Charlie Cooper – March 23, 2013

Five people who risked everything by speaking out reflect on what they accomplished and the effect on their own lives.

The whistleblowers are: Nevres Kemal,fomer social worker; Michael Woodford, former CEO of Olympus; Margaret Heywood, former nurse; Craig Murray, former british ambassador; and Frank Serpico, former New York police officer.

A whistleblowing success story in Niagara

Topics: 
Niagara Parks Commission, Ontario, Victories, Whistleblowers
Rating: 
4

Frank Parlato – December 18, 2012

Robert Gale, who owns a string of gas stations in Ontario, was a commissioner for the Ontario Niagara Parks Commission. That is before they refused to renew his term.

But he caused enough of a stir during his single term there that the people of Ontario should be forever grateful to him. He was the only commissioner out of twelve to break ranks and stand up against a secret plan by the other eleven commissioners to lower the Maid of the Mist boat rent on the Canadian side back in 2008.

U.S. whistleblower rewarded after hospital settles malpractice case

Topics: 
USA, Health care, Victories
Rating: 
2

Reed Abelson – January 4, 2013

A group of doctors who performed unusually high rates of heart procedures on patients at a community hospital in Ohio settled with the Justice Department over accusations that some of the procedures were medically unnecessary, federal regulators announced on Friday.

The settlement covered accusations that the doctors and the hospital, then known as the EMH Regional Medical Center, had billed Medicare for unnecessary medical care from 2001 to 2006. The hospital agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle the accusations, and the physician group, the North Ohio Heart Center, agreed to pay $541,870, according to a Justice Department statement.

Ornge settles lawsuit with ex-employee who alleged whistleblowing got her fired

Topics: 
Whistleblowers, Victories, Health care, Charities & non-profits, Ontario
Rating: 
4

December 11, 2012

Ontario's scandal-plagued air ambulance service has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who alleged she was fired for being a whistleblower.

Lisa Kirbie sued Ornge only about six weeks ago, but a spokesman for the arm's-length provincial agency says the case has now been resolved, though details of the settlement are confidential.

President signs whistleblower bill for US workers

Topics: 
USA, Legislation, Victories
Rating: 
2

Larry Margasak – November 27, 2012

President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday that affords greater protection to federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations.

Capping a 13-year effort by supporters of whistle-blower rights, the new law closes loopholes created by court rulings, which removed protections for federal whistle-blowers. One loophole specified that whistle-blowers were only protected when they were the first to report misconduct.

'Satisfied' Aussie whistleblower cop weighs future in the force

Topics: 
Policing, Child abuse, Australia, Whistleblowers, Victories
Rating: 
2
The following are selected extracts
Peter Fox

Megan Levy – November 13, 2012

A senior detective who blew the whistle on an alleged police cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church said he had received threatening messages on police letterhead since speaking out on an issue that he acknowledged would end his career in the force.

But after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a sweeping royal commission into child sex abuse on Monday, Detective Inspector Peter Fox said he felt vindicated and satisfied that the thousands of voices of abuse victims would finally be heard.

Australian whistleblower claims moral victory

Topics: 
Victories, Australia, Whistleblowers
Rating: 
3
Gillian Sneddon

November 1, 2012

The woman who blew the whistle on disgraced former Swansea (Australia) MP, Milton Orkopoulos has won her appeal against the State. The former Aboriginal Affairs Minister is in jail after being convicted of 30 child sex offences.

Gillian Sneddon was sacked as his staffer after helping police convict him.She was awarded $430,000 compensation after suing Orkopoulos and the Parliament for bullying and harassment, but lost her claim against the state.

Ottawa whistleblower wins battle against developer

Topics: 
Municipalities, Whistleblowers, Victories
Rating: 
3
Ted Cooper

City water resources engineer worried about development along Carp River flood plain

CBC News – November 1, 2012

The man who blew the whistle on a development plan in the city's west end has won another battle in his long fight with developers. Ted Cooper is a water resources engineer for the City of Ottawa, but as a citizen, Cooper has complained to authorities several times about what he calls faulty development designs on the flood plains of the Carp River.

"But this time the developer fought back," Cooper said. Kanata West is a 700-hectare project near Scotiabank Place.

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