Whistleblower

accounts to evade taxes. (Court & Sharman, 2009) Beside the whistleblower case discussed above, we also learned this week that the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) highlighted in the 2014 Global fraud study…

Snowden: The Hero The World Needs Whistle blowing is a very controversial and delicate topic in the world today. It defines whether a person is a hero or a traitor. The Snowden NSA leakage is the perfect example of controversy. Edward Snowden, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee as well as a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, blew the whistle in 2013. He was the face behind the world’s the biggest whistleblowing case in U.S. history. He exposed how the U.S. government’s…

Ultimately, he was faced with the ethical dilemma to either publish the Edward Snowden NSA leaks or to ignore him altogether. In order to truly understand the situation it is crucial to construct a potter box and evaluate Glenn Greenwald’s decision. A whistleblower is an individual that “exposes misconduct or dishonest or illegal activities in an organization”. Edward Snowden—a former technical assistant at the…

to the resolution of civil claims for billing Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for giving home visits to those who were not qualified. Results The False Claims Act has been effective in the fight against fraud because they give ordinary citizen whistleblowers the privilege to file a lawsuit in all taxpayer’s name. The False Claims Act of 1986 helped the government recover millions of dollars (CITATION). There has been lots of recovery of…

Dr. Jeffrey Wigand was born in New York City in 1942 and now resides in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. Currently Dr. Wigand travels the world lecturing and acting as an expert witness and doing consultant work on tobacco issues. However, his heart lies with his non-profit organization Smoke-Free Kids, Inc. He feels it is his obligation to concentrate as much energy as possible helping children of all ages to “make better decisions and healthy choices regarding tobacco use.” (Wigand) Dr. Wigand holds…

Should Whistleblowers Be Protected? In a controversial time, Edward Snowden once said, “I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.” Edward Snowden is an American who specialized in computers working for the United States government. He worked under the CIA and was a contractor who copied classified information, without prior…

talk about the whistleblowers, we often have different ideas on our minds concerning them as they have significant, but complicated roles in our society. Therefore, the paper discusses the different types of whistleblowers, together with the laws that protect them. Nevertheless, the study uses a case of Sherry Hunt, which gives a practical example about the whistleblowers. Summary Whistleblowers can be divided into two broad categories, that is the internal and external whistleblowers. The…

This week in class we focused in depth on whistleblowers. U.S. civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid negative connotations found with other words such as “snitch”. I applaud his attempt to create a better word, yet whistleblowers are often times deemed snitches. Also, when people tend to think of whistleblowers, they probably think of WikiLeaks or individuals exposing important government information such as corruption when it comes to money or the military,…

In the corporate world, whistleblowing is one of the hardest things that employees are expected to do when a company is doing wrong. Whistleblowers must decide whether to stay loyal to the company who has taken care of them or to present the truth to the public. There are some conditions to being a whistleblower, one must make sure that the accusations are true, backed by concrete evidence, unbiased and for the better of the public. Some say choosing to whistle blow is a violation of the loyalty…

Whistleblowing has been a topic of discussion in business for over a hundred years. While there are federally mandated regulations in place to protect whistleblowers, some still argue that whistleblowing is wrong. The main argument of these naysayers, like Norman Bowie and Sissela Bok, is that whistleblowing is an act of disloyalty to the company. In Ronald Duska’s article Whistleblowing II, he takes opposition to this stance. Throughout his article he makes three main points: employees have no…