Rule 30: Never Forget: Whistleblowing Works
Resources for Whistleblowers
“Most [civil fraud cases that result] in recoveries were brought to the government by whistleblowers” under the False Claims Act.
- Chair Gary Gensler: Prepared Remarks for National Whistleblower Day Celebration (July 30, 2021)
- SEC Chair Praises Agency’s Whistleblower Program; Mary Jo White
- Mary Jo White, “Remarks at the Securities Enforcement Forum” (Oct. 9, 2013).
- Jane Norberg, Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower, Securities and Exchange Commission, Press Release on award to overseas whistleblower.
- Statement of Attorney General on the False Claims Act: Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice, “Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the 25th Anniversary of the False Claims Act Amendments of 1986” (Jan. 31, 2012).
- Statement of the Assistant Attorney General on the False Claims Act: Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery Delivers Remarks at American Bar Association’s 10th National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement
- The testimony of the Senate Judiciary Chair in support of the False Claims Act: “Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the constitution and Civil Justice Hearing on ’Oversight of the False Claims Act’ April 28, 2016.”
- Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, “Whistleblowers Deserve Our Profound Gratitude,” speech given on National Whistleblower Day (July 30, 2018)
- Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt – Remarks on the False Claims Act, DOJ Press Release (2018)
- Overview of the effectiveness of reward laws: Testimony of Stephen Kohn, House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform
- Justice Department Recovers Over $3.7 Billion From False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2017, Remarks of Acting Assistant General Chad A. Readler
- Acting Associate Attorney General Bill Baer Delivers Remarks on Individual Accountability at American Bar Association’s 11th National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement
- Payment of Reward from the LE Reward Account: Operation Plantando Las Semillas
- The Department of Justice’s Statistics on Fraud Recoveries from the False Claims Act 2019
- Whistleblowers Responsible for More Than Sixty Percent of FCA Recoveries in 2016
- Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the 1986 Amendments to the False Claims Act
- FBI Whistleblower’s Decade Long Journey to Vindication Featured On NPR
- 13.769 Billion Reasons to Thank Whistleblowers on Tax Day
- Senators Honor Whistleblowers on National Whistleblower Day
- Senate Approves National Whistleblower Appreciation Day for Second Year
- Brad Birkenfeld receives $104 million IRS whistleblower award
- SEC Chair Praises Agency’s Whistleblower Program
- Senate Recognizes Whistleblower Appreciation Day
- Illegal Swiss Banking Collapses
- Stephen Kohn, “Does Whistleblowing Work,” Pro Market, a publication of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Asher Schechter, “Experts: Financial Rewards and Protections are the Best Way to Incentivize Whistleblowers,” Pro Market, a publication of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, and Luigi Zingales, “Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?” The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Working Paper No 08-22 (2009)
- Utilizing Whistleblower’s in the Fight Against Waste, Fraud and Abuse, National Whistleblower Center (February 25, 2015).
- Whistleblower Reward Programs: An International Framework for the Detection of Corruption and Illegal Bribery, National Whistleblower Center (January 26, 2015).
- The Impact of Whistleblowers on Financial Misrepresentation Enforcement Actions (December 2014).
- Saving America’s “Most Important Tool to Uncover and Punish Fraud:” 25 Facts That Rebut the Chamber of Commerce’s Proposal to undermine the False Claims Act, National Whistleblower Center (July 30, 2014).
- Not Just Whistling Dixie: The Case For Tax Whistleblowers in the States (Dennis J. Ventry Jr, Villanova, Vol. 59, Issue 3, August 1, 2014)
- The Legality of the IRS’ Proposed Whistleblower Rule: Flunking the Loving Test, National Whistleblower Center (June 5, 2014).
- Policy Analysis as to the Congressional to Provide Awards to All Whistleblowers Who Submit Information that Leads to a Successful Enforcement Action, Including Those Who Submitted Information Before the Passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, National Whistleblower Center, (November 9, 2012).
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, “Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse: 2016 Global Fraud Study.”
- Ethics Resource Center, “The Ethics Resource Center’s 2011 National Government Ethics Survey: Workplace Ethics in Transition.”
- Ernesto Reuben, “Nobody likes a rat: On the willingness to report lies and the consequences thereof,” Vol. 93 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 384 (Sept. 2013).