The Department of Labor has ordered the reinstatement and compensation of a Countrywide whistleblower fired shortly after the company merged with Bank of America in 2008.  The whistleblower, whose name is not given, conducted an investigation of Countrywide in 2007 and found “egregious fraud spread throughout the entire region” involving “pervasive wire, mail and bank [...]

Boeing whistleblowers Nicholas P. Tides and Matthew Craig Neumann filed a petition requesting that the Supreme Court overturn a Ninth Circuit Court ruling that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) provisions do not protect employees who disclose information to the press.  This summer the Ninth Circuit court ruled that SOX prevents retaliation against whistleblowers who [...]