U.S. Lets Whistle-Blowers Lose Jobs
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By Peter Eisler  WASHINGTON -- The federal government is sanctioning agreements that cost whistle-blowers their jobs after they expose safety and security lapses at nuclear facilities and toxic waste sites, Labor Department records show.
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The United States said it was releasing documents to the independent panel probing the United Nations' scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program, after the inquiry's chief complained about Washington's cooperation.
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Federal officials involved in a U.S.-funded study in Uganda endangered the lives of hundreds of patients testing an AIDS drug because of careless and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
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Abandon Fal$e Hope$ US consumer rights organisation the Federal Trade Commission has joined up with law enforcement agencies to launch a crackdown on bogus job opportunity scams.â¦
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In one of its broadest efforts to rein in what it regards as abusive tax shelter activity among well-to-do professionals, the Internal Revenue Service is seeking to shut down a group
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Crime may not pay, but blowing the whistle on companies that swindle the government sure can. Jim Alderson got &#36;20 million in one settlement and split &#36;100 million with another whistleblower in a related case, both involving Medicare fraud by the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain and a company it acquired.
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More than 100 individuals in the  United States and 35 others in foreign nations have been  arrested in a crackdown on telemarketing fraud that caused  losses exceeding $1 billion, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency&#039;s domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  - Democratic presidential  candidate John Kerry promised laid-off workers on Friday that  the United States under his leadership would stop helping  companies that send jobs overseas and instead give breaks to  those that keep them in America.
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Thousands of federal doctors and medical researchers who receive some of the highest salaries in government don't enjoy the same protections to blow the whistle on wrongdoing as other civil servants, a judge has ruled.
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The Internal Revenue Service on Friday named a new whistleblower chief to oversee a program where individuals can reap substantial rewards by exposing tax cheats.
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WASHINGTON -- Twenty-two members of Congress signed a letter today demanding information on reports that FDA whistleblower David Graham was being punished by Food and Drug Administration officials for his outspoken testimony before a Senate committee.
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Some of the nation's largest banks were customers of a Florida firm shut down this year for pretexting, or lying, to get personal information such as phone records, the same practice that Hewlett-Packard Co. executives will testify to Congress about today.
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US firmss have cut back on the total number of staff employed for the first time in four years, official data shows.
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A California court has shut down the U.S. version of Wikileaks.org, where whistle-blowers anonymously post documents.
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Documents related to a whistle-blower lawsuit that led to a text-messaging sex scandal involving the mayor must be turned over to the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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The push for better ethics and transparent accounting in corporate America has had an unexpected side effect: more finance chiefs are calling it quits.