| 2010 |
|
Andrew
Maguire (whistleblower) |
|
Andrew
Maguire is a British commodities trader and whistleblower. He
presented evidence to United States regulators alleging that fraud
had been committed, and that prices in the international gold and
silver markets had been manipulated. He went public in April 2010
with assertions of market manipulation by JPMorgan
Chase and HSBC of
the gold and silver markets.[191] |
| 2010 |
 |
Chelsea
Manning |
United
States Army |
US Army
intelligence analyst who released the
largest set of classified documents ever, mostly published by WikiLeaks and
their media partners. The material included videos of the July
12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai
airstrike in Afghanistan; 250,000 United
States diplomatic cables; and 500,000 army reports that came
to be known as the Iraq
War logs and Afghan
War logs.[192] Manning
was convicted of violating the Espionage
Act and other offenses and sentenced to 35
years in prison.[193] |
| 2002–2010 |
|
Cheryl
D. Eckard |
GlaxoSmithKline |
GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK) whistleblower Cheryl D. Eckard exposed contamination problems
at GSK's pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, which led to a
$750 million settlement with the U.S. government related to
civil and criminal charges that the firm manufactured and sold
adulterated pharmaceutical products. Eckard was awarded
$96 million in 2010, a record for an individual whistleblower,
since surpassed by UBS
AG whistleblower Bradley
Birkenfeld's $104 million award.[194] |
| 2010 |
 |
Jim
Wetta |
AstraZeneca |
AstraZeneca
(AZ) whistleblower Jim (James) Wetta filed a False Claims qui-tam
case that triggered the United States Department of Justice
investigation into AstraZeneca violating the Federal Anti-Kickback
Statute and promoting the unapproved use of the (anti-psychotic)
drug Seroquel.[195]
In September
2000, the drug Seroquel received FDA approval for the short-term
treatment of schizophrenia, then in 2004, for bipolar depression.
James Wetta exposed the company's alleged fraud, where sales reps
were promoting the drug for a wide range of less serious disorders
which included aggression, Alzheimer's disease, anger management,
anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar
maintenance, dementia, depression, mood disorder, sleeplessness
and post-traumatic stress disorder. Promoting drugs off-label
amounts to fraud under the False Claims Act, as the unapproved
uses were not medically accepted indications for which the federal
and state Medicaid programs provided coverage. Under the Food,
Drug and Cosmetics Act, a company must specify the intended use of
a product in its new drug application to the FDA. Once the drug is
approved by the FDA, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for
off-label uses.[196] The
civil settlement agreement required AstraZeneca to pay
$520 million to the federal government to resolve civil
settlements. Jim Wetta provided the information which proved the
drug was promoted for conditions other than the FDA medical
indication.[197]
|
| 2011 |
|
Michael
Woodford |
Olympus
Corporation |
Corporate
president, revealed past losses concealed and written off via
excessive fee payments[198] |
| 2011 |
|
Clare
Rewcastle Brown |
Sarawak
Report |
Operated
and founded the radio network Radio
Free Sarawak and whistleblowing site Sarawak
Report. Before February 2011, Sarawak
Report and Radio
Free Sarawak operated anonymously. However,
Rewcastle Brown and Radio Free Sarawak's DJ is Peter John Jaban
decided to go public after one of her informants, a former Taib
aide, was found dead.[199] Ross
Boyert, who used to head Taib's supposed real estate arm in the
United States, was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room with a
plastic bag around his head in September 2011.[200] Boyert
had claimed that he and his family had been harassed since he filed
a lawsuit against the real estate company in 2007.[200] Sarawak
Report later revealed a barrage of exposés including the April
2011 Sarawak election's fraud, FBC
Media's scandal, Musa
Aman timber corruption, Red
Granite Pictures' controversy and with her
latest being the 1Malaysia
Development Berhad scandal. |
| 2011 |
|
M.
N. Vijayakumar |
Indian
Administrative Service |
Exposed
serious corrupt practices at high levels.[201][202] |
| 2011 |
 |
Blake
Percival |
USIS |
Percival
filed a Qui Tam Whistleblower claim under seal in 7/2011 alleging
that USIS had defrauded the U.S. Government by submitting unfinished
background investigations to the government for payment.[203] USIS has
been under scrutiny since it was revealed that they had performed
the background investigation of Edward
Snowden and Aaron
Alexis.[204] |
| 2011 |
|
Everett
Stern |
HSBC |
AML
compliance officer for HSBC who
uncovered billions of dollars of illegal money laundering
transactions that he began reporting to the FBI and
the CIA in
2011, which led to an SECinvestigation
and a $1.92 billion fine against HSBC the following year. These
encompassed charges of money laundering for drug traffickers,
terrorist financiers, and nations under U.S. and international
sanctions.[205] |
| 2012 |
|
Ted
Siska |
Ward
Diesel Filter Systems, Inc. of New York |
Ward
Diesel Filter Systems Inc. has agreed to pay the United States
$628,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false
claims to federal agencies under a contract to provide diesel
exhaust filtering systems for fire engines through the General
Services Administration's (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule program, the
Justice Department announced on June 26, 2012. The government's
investigation was initiated by a lawsuit, U.S. ex rel. Siska v. Ward
Diesel Filter Systems, Inc., filed under the False Claims Act's qui
tam provisions, which permit private parties to sue for false claims
on behalf of the United States and to share in any recovery. The
whistleblower, Ted Siska, will receive $94,200 of the settlement.[206] |
| 2012 |
|
Vijay
Pandhare |
Chief
Engineer, Irrigation Department, Government
of Maharashtra |
Pandhare
was a bureaucrat belonging to the Irrigation Department in the
Indian state of Maharashtra.
He blew
the whistle on the Maharashtra Irrigation
Scam of 2012 that led to the resignation of Maharashtra Deputy Chief
MinisterAjit
Pawar.[207] |
| 2012 |
|
Joshua
Wilson |
Captain, United
States Air Force |
Wilson
and Major Jeremy Gordon exposed the malfunctioning oxygen system on
board the F-22
Raptor systems that were causing pilots to
become disoriented, first to superior officers and then to CBS 60
Minutes. As a result, Wilson's superiors cancelled his
promotion to Major, took him off flying duty and threatened to take
away his wings. Wilson was also forced out of his desk job at Air
Combat Command. No such actions faced Major Gordon.[208] |
| 2012 |
|
Carmen
Segarra |
US New
York Federal Reserve's appointed regulator to Goldman
Sachs |
Carmen
Segarra discovered that Goldman Sachs did not have a conflict of
interest policy when it advised El
Paso Corp. on selling itself to Kinder
Morgan, a company which Goldman Sachs owned a $4 billion
stake. She was forced by her superiors at the Federal Reserve to
falsify her report, but stated that her professional view of the
situation had not changed. She was shortly thereafter fired.[209] The
New York Federal Reserve disputes that she was fired in retaliation.[210] |
| 2012 |
 |
Silver
Meikar |
Estonian
Reform Party |
In
May 2012 Meikar published an article, admitting that he had donated
cash to Estonian Reform Party in 2009 and 2010, coming from unknown
sources and given him by co-politician Kalev
Lillo, according to a proposition made by Kristen
Michal, Reform Party's secretary general.[211] The
scandal became known as Silvergate. Lillo
and Michal were presented with criminal charges. After a long and
heated discussion in media, charges were dropped, as it was not
possible to gather enough evidence. On October 24, 2012, Meikar was
expelled from the party.[212]Consequently,
Kristen Michal stepped down as the minister of justice. |
| 2012 |
|
Antoine
Deltour |
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
In
2012 Deltour's leaking of 28,000 pages of confidential documents
revealing how multinational companies routed funds to lower
corporate tax bills, gave rise to the Luxembourg
Leaksjournalistic investigation and attracted international
attention to tax
avoidance schemes in Luxembourg and
elsewhere.[213] There
was no suggestion that the arrangements were illegal under
Luxembourg law, but the disclosures prompted wider public debate on
corporate tax avoidance schemes and criminal charges against
Deltour. |
| 2013 |
|
David
P. Weber |
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission |
Weber,
an attorney and Certified
Fraud Examiner, was the assistant inspector general of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He learned of misconduct in
the Bernard
Madoff and Allen
Stanford investigations, and of suspected
hacking by a unit of the Chinese military.[214][215] He
insisted that agency management report the misconduct and hacking to
Congressional Oversight Committees, but instead was terminated for
supposedly unrelated reasons. Shortly after his lawsuit became
public, news stories broke that the People's Liberation Army
compromised information technology at 160 U.S. corporations and
government agencies.[216][217] |
| 2013 |
 |
Edward
Snowden |
National
Security Agency |
Booz
Allen Hamilton contractor Snowden released classified
material on top-secret NSA programs including the PRISM
surveillance program to The
Guardian and The
Washington Postin June 2013.[218][219] |
| 2013 |
|
Laurence
do Rego |
Executive
Director in Charge of Risk and Finance Ecobank
Transnational |
In
a letter to the Nigerian
Securities and Exchange Commission highlighted
attempts by the bank's chairman and Executive Director to sell off
assets well below the market value, write off debt, manipulate
financial results and award the incoming chief executive an
unapproved bonus of US$1.14 million.[220] As
a result, do Rego was suspended from her role in the bank. After a
nine-month battle over allegations of mismanagement, the Ecobank
board decided to unanimously remove the controversial chief
executive and reinstate do Rego to her post.[221] |
| 2013 |
|
John
Crane |
Office
of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense |
Crane
built up the DoD IG office over his 25 years there to become the
"gold standard" within the government but had his career destroyed
for his support of government whistleblowers. Edward
Snowden went public rather than reporting
within the system due to severe reprisal against earlier NSA
whistleblowers.[222] |
| 2014 |
 |
Ben
Strickland |
U.S.
Coast Guard |
Commander
(CDR) Ben Strickland, alleged multiple acts of retaliation in
violation of the Military
Whistleblower Protection Act by Coast Guard
Investigative Service (CGIS) and senior Coast Guard Officials after
he reported a sexual assault onboard USCGC
Munro in May 2013. The Coast Guard denied
retaliation on their part and claimed he was not eligible for
whistleblower protection. CDR Strickland alleged that he became an
unlawful target of the very investigations which stemmed from his
report of a sexual assault and filed a formal complaint which was
accepted for investigation by the Department of Homeland Security
Office of Inspector General and pends administrative review by the
Board for Correction of Military Records.[223] |
| 2014 |
|
John
Tye |
U.S.
State Department |
Former
State Department official John Tye released an editorial in The
Washington Post in July 2014, highlighting
concerns over data collection under Executive
Order 12333. While Tye's concerns are rooted in classified
material he had access to through the State Department, he has not
publicly released any classified materials.[224] |
| 2014 |
|
Joseph
Y. Ting |
Florida
Radiation Oncology |
Joseph
Y. Ting Ph.D worked as a Medical
physicist in Florida
Radiation Oncology. In 2014, Dr. Ting filed a False
Claims Act lawsuit challenging 21st
Century Oncology’s practices, and accusing the company of
ripping off Medicare.[225] The
cancer-care giant; 21st Century Oncology took over South Florida
Radiation Oncology where Dr. Ting was working as a medical
physicist.[226]
Dr. Ting liaised
with the office of the U.S.
Attorney in the Middle District of Florida
regarding the issue. At the end, 21st Century
Oncology settled with the U.S.
Department of Justice and agreed to pay
$34.7 million back to the U.S.
Treasury.[225][227] On
March 8, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an award
of more than $7 million to Dr. Ting and his legal team for his
role in the settlement.[228][229]
|
| 2013–present |
 |
J.
Kirk McGill |
United
States Department of Defense – Defense
Contract Audit Agency |
DCAA McGill
was the Auditor-in-Charge of a 2013 audit of the National
Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
conducted on behalf of the Office of the Inspector General of the National
Science Foundation (NSF). The audit
concluded that NEON and the NSF had conspired to evade the
prohibition against payment of certain costs to Government grantees
including lobbying, parties, luxury foreign travel, and alcohol. The
audit was later overruled by top DCAA management. McGill reported
the improper overruling of the audit, which violated Generally
Accepted Government Auditing Standards, to the Office
of the Inspector General, United States Department of Defense and
DCAA's Internal Review Directorate (later the DCAA Inspector
General). Neither watchdog took any action to address McGill's
concerns, despite being notified as early as January 2014 of the
problem. McGill then reported the findings and the alleged cover up
to Congress. On December 11, 2015, NEON was fired from the
multibillion-dollar project.[230]McGill's
primary disclosure was published online on
January 5, 2015. McGill's allegations of retaliation remain under
investigation by the United
States Office of Special Counsel. |
| 2015 |
 |
John
Bitterman |
U.S.
Coast Guard |
Commander
(CDR) John Bitterman, self-identified as a whistleblower and
alleged retaliation in violation Military
Whistleblower Protection Act by Coast
Guard Pacific Area officials after he
complained about poor material conditions onboard his 47-year-old
cutter and requested additional funding shortly after taking
command. The Coast Guard stated they had conducted an investigation
and decided to relieve CDR Bitterman for "loss of confidence", but
refused to release details regarding the investigation claiming as a
reason it was administrative in nature. CDR Bitterman has vowed to
fight the relief including filing a complaint with the Department of
Homeland Security Office of Inspector General for investigation.[231][232] |
| 2016 |
|
Paul
Stevenson |
PsyCare |
Australian
Paul Stevenson worked as a clinical psychologist at the Manus
Regional Processing Centre and the Nauru
Detention Centre, providing support to both staff and
detainees.[233] In
June 2016, he publicly maintained that the levels of psychological
trauma at these Centres are the worst he has
ever seen and that Australia has an ethical responsibility to ensure
these Centres are closed down.[233] As
a result of speaking out, Stevenson had his contract to work on
Nauru summarily terminated by PsyCare.[234] |
| 2016 |
|
Edgar
Matobato |
Davao
Death Squad |
Edgar
Matobato (born Edgar Matobato y Bernal) is a self-confessed
professional hitman and serial
killer who claims to be a former member of
the Davao
Death Squad or the "DDS", an alleged
vigilante group organized by former Davao
City Mayor now Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte tasked to summarily execute
suspected criminals.
He appeared
before the Philippine
Senate on September 15, 2016[235] during
a hearing on extra-judicial
killings. At the hearing, Matobato recounted his experiences
as a killer and narrated how he killed his victims. He revealed
that Duterte once killed a certain Hamizola using an Uzi,
emptying the gun on the victim. On October 7, 2016, Edgar Matobato
was turned over by Senator Antonio
Trillanes to the Philippine
National Police after an arrest warrant
was issued to him.[236]
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