Spotlight: Bradley Birkenfeld
"Defendant Birkenfeld['s]... substantial assistance has been timely, significant, useful, truthful, complete and reliable." (Department of Justice, August 18, 2009). The DOJ also admitted that "but for Mr. Birkenfeld [the UBS] scheme would not have been discovered by the U.S. government." Bradley Birkenfeld commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence in federal prison on January 8, 2010, a direct result of blowing the whistle on one of the largest tax fraud schemes in U.S. history.
Bradley Birkenfeld filed his official clemency petition on Tax Day, April 15th. Your support is urgently needed! Take action by clicking here.
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Time Magazine "Woman of the Year" Urges Congress to Honor the Anniversary of 9/11 by Enacting Protections for National Security Whistleblowers
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David K. Colapinto is a nationally recognized whistleblower advocate, with an expertise in government fraud and qui tam cases, and in the use of the Privacy Act in defending whistleblowers.
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Michael D. Kohn is a nationally recognized litigator with a focus on whistleblower protection law and the co-author of The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers and Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees.
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Stephen M. Kohn is one of the nation’s foremost experts in whistleblower protection law and the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual.
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After twenty years as a FBI Special Agent, Jane Turner led efforts to force the FBI to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations. In retaliation for exposing FBI failures within its child crime program, Turner was removed from her position. Her whistleblower case is still pending.
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America’s first successful FBI whistleblower, Dr. Whitehurst, forced the president to execute an Executive Order ensuring whistleblower protection of all FBI agents who expose misconduct. His case exposed forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab and subjected it to outside oversight for the first time.
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In May of 2002, Ms. Rowley brought several of the pre 9/11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. She was one of three whistleblowers chosen as Person of the Year by TIME magazine in 2002 (Coleen is standing in the center).
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U.S. Air Marshal Robert MacLean was fired for disclosing that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) planned to remove air marshals from nonstop, long distance flights on the same type of aircraft used for the 9/11 attacks. Due to Congressional outrage after his disclosure, the plan was rescinded and air marshal coverage was not affected.
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Ms. Edmonds worked as a language specialist for the FBI's Washington Field Office. During her work with the bureau, she discovered and reported serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications.
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Russell D. Tice, a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, helped spark a national controversy in December 2005 over
claims that the NSA was engaged in unlawful and unconstitutional
wiretaps on American citizens.
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