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Renowned Whistleblower Expert Available for Interviews in Pittsburgh |
Washington, D.C. April 26, 2011. On May 4, 2011, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), Stephen M. Kohn will be in Pittsburgh and available for interviews regarding the most recent developments in whistleblower protections.
In July 2010, Congress enacted powerful new whistleblower
protections as part of the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform
legislation, which significantly expanded the ability for corporate
insiders to qualify for rewards. Under these laws corporate
whistleblowers can obtain multi-million dollar financial rewards for
disclosing violations of the Securities and Commodity Exchange Acts. The
reward provisions - which cover trillions of dollars in financial
transactions - have sparked fierce opposition from the Chamber of
Commerce. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to
publish final rules governing the whistleblower procedures within the
next 30 days.
NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn was directly involved in the
efforts to have Congress protect corporate whistleblowers and has met
with each of the five SEC Commissioners regarding the proposed
whistleblower rules. Mr. Kohn is also the author of The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide
to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself (Lyons Press, 2011),
which explains how whistleblowers can qualify for large monetary
rewards. As of 2010, whistleblowers have been paid $2.7 billion in
rewards under the False Claims Act.
Over the past 27 years, Mr. Kohn has also represented many of America's
most controversial and important whistleblowers, including Bunnatine
"Bunny" Greenhouse (who blew the whistle on the no-bid contracts awarded
to Halliburton for the Reconstruction of Iraq), Linda Tripp (in her
Privacy Act complaint concerning the government's illegal release of
personal information about Ms. Tripp) and Dr. Frederic Whitehurst (who
disclosed widespread forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab and exposed
misconduct in the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombing cases).
To arrange an interview with Mr. Kohn, please contact Lindsey M.
Williams at lmw@whistleblowers.org
or (202) 342-1903.
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