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UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
...e US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actually the whistleblower who helped the US crack open the secret Swiss bank accounts. As the Financial Times ...
Scams bigger than Bernie
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
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Remember Harry Markopolos ? He was the whistleblower who alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to Bernard Madoff's scam. The guy who was ignored by the SEC until it was too late. N...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
...mmission's incompetence over fraudster Bernard Madoff and why it ignored all the red flags. Now whistleblower Harry Markopoulos, who warned regulators more than a decade ago about Madoff, has accu...
Oil watchdog's "corruption"
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
Stunning CNN revelations about the US Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service and its so-called "cult of corruption". A report shows that the energy industry was lavishing the agency's employees with improper gifts and gratuities. There are also allegations ...
Women whistleblowers suffer more
in Sox First, on May 5, 2008
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Turning into a whistleblower is a fraught decision. Once it happens, you can expect some form of retaliation. Many would say doing the right thing is not necessarily the right thing to do in terms...
SOX whistleblower protections extend outside the US
in Sox First, on February 18, 2008
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Hat tip to the Whistleblowers Protection website for alerting us to a court ruling that a former senior employee of global consulting firm Accenture, who was stationed in Paris, can sue for damag...
Ethics watch
in Sox First, on November 1, 2007
...in the US were well ahead of their peers in Europe when it came to establishing codes of ethics and whistleblower policies. No doubt that has a lot to do with Sarbanes-Oxley. Still, the findings sugg...
Was Ken Lay a typical CEO?
in Sox First, on September 18, 2007
...cent at audit committee meetings. On the issue of whether Lay should have responded differently to whistleblower Sherron Watkins' anonymous letter, Brickley argues that Lay responded in a way tha...
How to develop a whistleblower culture
in Sox First, on September 12, 2007
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How does a company live with whistleblowers? What does it have to do to encourage people to speak when there are issues, but at the same time ensure that it does not throw operations and management...
Halliburton's dodgy numbers
in Sox First, on July 4, 2007
...e company. He says Halliburton retaliated against him in violation of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act's whistleblower provisions after he took his concerns to the Securities and Exchange Commission and th...
NFL's whistle-blower concussion system is just a start
in End Zone Buzz, on June 20, 2007
Current and retired NFL players are having enormous headache problems, caused by multiple concussions .
The problem has escalated to a point where the league felt it important to meet with the NFL Players Association to discussion solutions.
During the " concussion summit ," the pro...
SOX fails another whistleblower test
in Sox First, on June 12, 2007
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If we needed any further evidence that Sarbanes-Oxley was of not much use to whistleblowers, it came last week when the first person to win whistleblower protection under SOX ended up losing his c...
European whistleblowing
in Sox First, on June 6, 2007
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European employees agree that whistleblower rights should be protected. But 19 per cent of Eastern Europeans and one out of 10 Western European employees believe their employers would not protect ...
Whistleblower incentives?
in Sox First, on May 29, 2007
...er this year, I did a blog entry looking at how Sarbanes-Oxley was close to useless in protecting whistleblowers. So how do solve the problem? One school of thought is to provide financial incentiv...
Whistleblower best practice
in Sox First, on April 18, 2007
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Protecting and encouraging whistleblowers is now the big governance issue. You can bring in laws like Sarbanes-Oxley but they have a limited impact. In fact, they might even make it worse, somethi...
Wolfowitz and World Bank nepotism uproar
in Sox First, on April 9, 2007
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who spends a fair bit of his time lecturing Third World countries about the evils of corruption, is caught up in a scandal about his romantic partner getting a promotion and generous pay rises. More details from The Guardian . The latest developments have o...
Whistleblowing in der TRACKBACK-Show in Radio Fritz vom RBB
in Das CIO Weblog, on 25.03.07
...e Meinung gefragt. Also habe ich ihm etwas dazu gesagt. Eigentlich war der Aufhänger die deutsche Whistleblower-Seite Boocompany , zu der ich auch manchmal als "Sentinel" (deutsch: "Wä...
SOX no good for whistleblowers
in Sox First, on February 17, 2007
...ting or auditing matters." According to the study, it doesn't provide much protection for whistleblowers at all. Indeed, after analysing in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud i...
Wireless Monitoring for Abdominal Aneurysms
in The Wireless Weblog, on February 3, 2007
...ybe it's a little hypocritical to mention a wireless medical device so soon after looking at a whistleblower case regarding a similar product, but KVOA Tucson's Erica Heartquist looks at a...
Whistleblower Says Wireless Makes Medtronic's Concerto Unstable
in The Wireless Weblog, on January 31, 2007
According to Reuters , the FDA is "investigating safety concerns raised by a former Medtronic Inc. employee about a wireless device used to treat heart failure."
" The Concerto device , approved by the FDA in May 2006, sends tiny electrical impulses to the heart to resynchro...
Take out the earplugs: whistleblower policies for dummies
in Sox First, on September 6, 2006
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Whistleblowers are now regarded as a key issue in the post Sarbanes-Oxley world with the law specifically providing them with protection from discrimination. But how many organisations have metho...
SOX appeal: the net widens
in Sox First, on August 22, 2006
...t directors, controls on how many other services the outside auditor provides the organisation, and whistleblower protections, are SOX-inspired....
Options probe hits share prices
in Sox First, on July 11, 2006
The backdating probes are clearly having an impact on performance. Concerned that allegations of executives living it up after backdating options points to another Tyco, Adelphia or WorldCom, panicked investors are selling out, reports the Los Angeles Times . No charges have been filed and we...
Sarbanes-Oxley, Whistleblowers and Culture Clash
in Sox First, on May 16, 2006
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Plenty of focus on whistleblower Mark Livingston's fight with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, hailed as one of the first cases decided by a federal court under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Livingston claims...
Calling all whistleblowers
in Sox First, on March 29, 2006
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With material weakness and whistleblowers identified as the two key issues in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley world , it's interesting to read this report in Inc.com about how some companies are us...
Whistleblowers and Lamplighters?
in Sox First, on March 14, 2006
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It's easy to think whistleblowers have become the new protected species in this corporate governance climate. Remember back in December 2002 when Time magazine honored the three women who blew...
Lies, damn lies and Enron
in Sox First, on March 9, 2006
...t around that time, Lay was also getting information from another source: the unsigned letter that whistleblower Sherron S Watkins wrote after Skilling's sudden resignation. As expected, Skilli...
Whistleblowers and Slippery Slopes
in Sox First, on February 17, 2006
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Interesting account from Lynn Brewer, an Enron whistleblower , about the problems she faced bringing wrongdoing to light. One of the big problems, she says, is not just about confronting the re...
Attorney-client privilege: tough calls ahead
in Sox First, on December 12, 2005
...es are now the most frequent kinds of litigation faced by corporate legal departments, and that the whistleblower protection under Sarbanes-Oxley has also led to the increase in litigation. At the sa...