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Chris Blowers: The situation is 'blown out of the water' Blowers, a 53-year-old who works in the communications field, has lived in Charlotte for 20 years.
In some cases, they removed the tumbleweeds with leaf blowers.
Lawful whistle-blowers should always — always — be protected from reprisal.
Lee Young-kee, who leads the Horuragi Foundation, an advocacy group for whistle-blowers, said that Korean Air's treatment of Mr. Park was typical of the hardship faced by whistle-blowers in South Korea.
As they did with other whistle-blowers, they disparaged its work.
CNN spent a week with Flint families, officials and whistle-blowers.
Journalists fret that sources (especially whistle-blowers) may have insufficient protection.
It is used by whistle-blowers or people in oppressive countries.
Ought leakers be punished, and how can whistle-blowers be protected?
For a moment you have managed to forget the leaf blowers!
Noisy leaf blowers may be bugging more than just your neighbors.
Pros: Check out our buying guide on the best snow blowers.
But whistle-blowers' impact on corporate practices has been less clear.
Others used leaf blowers to clear tear gas from the air.
The best hope for better practices may be the whistle-blowers themselves.
John McCain said the decision "devalues the courage of real whistle-blowers".
"VA whistle-blowers say schedulers still are manipulating wait times," it added.
Regulators are investigating Mr Staley for breaking rules that protect whistle-blowers.
Some doggos were equally as excited for leaf blowers and soap bubbles.
This leaf blowers costs $249, but it's on sale for 35% off.
They have sought out whistle-blowers and filed Freedom of Information requests.
It was quashing whistle-blowers who were behaving properly and firing them.
Beyond that, some at WADA said, they feared jeopardizing whistle-blowers' safety.
Whistle-blowers often suffer, sometimes more than those whose offenses they report.
A website called RegeniLeaks sprang up, soliciting tips from Egyptian whistle-blowers.
Even pass a federal law that can send whistle-blowers to prison.
The only real deterrent value here is toward truth-telling whistle-blowers.
The issues were brought to the attorney general by whistle-blowers inside Barclays.
Five, who betrayed secrets out of allegiance to the "other side"; whistle blowers
KKR said whistle-blowers had claimed that there was accounting fraud at Aceco.
But when whistle-blowers make the news, he inevitably gets requests for interviews.
But that power could also be used against whistle-blowers, journalists and others.
Eric Ben-Artzi, a former risk analyst, was one of three whistle-blowers.
Our national security and our intelligence and our protections of the whistle-blowers.
He's a master of so much, but including inspectors general and whistle-blowers.
Whistle-blowers who expose consumer frauds often do not have the same options.
Leaf blowers are beloved and reviled for the same reason: They are powerful.
In the 12 years that I've been representing whistle-blowers, I've seen health care companies and other businesses use the courts to use increasingly aggressive tactics to retaliate against whistle-blowers who report fraud and harmful, illegal practices by their employers.
"They're still attacking the brave and courageous whistle-blowers," Tygart said of the Russians.
No wonder this practice is an effective gag for many would-be whistle-blowers.
His storefront became the project's first gate, decorated by Jessica Blowers with orange blossoms.
Bob and Mary are balloon-blowers and bell-ringers, but they don't want trouble.
Whistle-blowers have provided further details on the clandestine doping scheme the report described.
Two hundred and sixty-two million dollars of that was awarded to whistle-blowers.
In many countries, including China, the rights of whistle-blowers are protected by law.
State-sponsored information warfare is nothing like what activist hackers and whistle-blowers do.
Many whistle-blowers seek to remain anonymous, to avoid being blacklisted in their fields.
United States and British regulators said Mr. Staley's efforts flouted laws protecting whistle-blowers.
One story, the bad one, involves whistle-blowers, back channels and quid pro quos.
Mr. Sanders said that the ruling and fine will only deter future whistle-blowers.
This development also sends a message to whistle-blowers in this and future administrations.
"Retaliation protections that intelligence community whistle-blowers have are not very enforceable," she says.
But Trump hates whistle-blowers who take seriously their oath to defend the Constitution.
"Energy is everything and in this case, it is palpable and tangible," Blowers said.
And they prosecuted whistle-blowers, and upped drone warfare in a really illegal way.
Whistle-blowers who fight for consumers should not have to battle on their own.
But the country is making slow progress in its efforts to empower whistle-blowers.
But Mr. Barr is still under pressure to renounce his hostility toward whistle-blowers.
Blowers typically ends up with a 15-page report by the end of each investigation.
The snow blowers were made by China's Techtronic Industries (Dongguan) Co Ltd, the statement said.
Leaking, particularly by whistle-blowers, is predictable when the executive branch does not heed dissent.
Instead, revelations have mostly been made by whistle-blowers, reporters, the police and federal investigators.
At the world body, whistle-blowers are summarily dismissed in retaliation for disclosures of misconduct.
Whistle-blowers play a particularly critical role in Congress's ability to oversee the intelligence community.
But the lack of protection for whistle-blowers is cited as a major stumbling block.
It is also supposed to block the secretary from taking retaliatory action against whistle-blowers.
Leaf blowers were under fire in the past few years, but for a different reason.
They turned to snow blowers to congregate all the tissue paper confetti in one place.
As a former undercover investigator, I now work with whistle-blowers who expose the truth.
Because whistle-blowers help make the world a better place, that is a good thing.
Slowly, videos have leaked from whistle-blowers revealing outbreaks and unreported death tolls in hospitals.
"Unemployed whistle-blowers can't financially afford to wait six years for justice," Mr. Devine said.
Ms. Broder, who was no stranger to whistle-blowers, pressed the young men for details.
Why are whistle-blowers being jailed while reporters who publish their prohibited leaks win awards?
It can involve using blowers, thermometers, and infrared cameras to detect leaks and other problems.
While there have recently been successful prosecutions involving whistle-blowers at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and UBS, these were securities or tax-law violations, and the whistle-blowers were participating in programs of the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Internal Revenue Service.
Whistle-blowers want to share their data anonymously, so it cannot be traced back to them.
Despite his clemency splurge, Mr Obama has been mostly regarded as rather harsh on whistle-blowers.
Plus, it takes 28 blowers to stay inflated while people are bouncing to their hearts' desires.
"When there aren't safe channels for whistle-blowers internally, they end up going public," says Brian.
The conversations also point to the disappointments that even the most successful whistle-blowers can encounter.
His efforts could also embolden other whistle-blowers to come forward and expose cheating in sports.
He will report to David Blowers, president of the east region, the company said on Monday.
"Whistle-blowers are one of the absolutely central ingredients in fighting health-care fraud," Budetti said.
In just five years, the S.E.C. has paid out over $111 million in whistle-blowers awards.
Metra also uses a tubular heating system and hot air blowers to heat up cold track.
All government leaders should encourage the process: Protecting whistle-blowers should never be a partisan activity.
He has built one of the top legal practices in the country representing corporate whistle-blowers.
In the country's rigidly hierarchical office culture, whistle-blowers are commonly seen as betrayers, analysts said.
But now they've put blowers in it, to create negative pressure so contaminated air doesn't escape.
Assistant City Manager Adam Blowers told WROC that the city is working to find the culprit.
And then there are the whistle-blowers whose accounts have provided a road map to investigators.
Words of protest and revelations that might be made by whistle-blowers are stifled by fear.
The president has obvious reasons to spin the complaint, but genuine whistle-blowers are not partisans.
The building offers a drive-in door, high ceilings, gas blowers, heavy power and floor drains.
The problem with whistle-blowers though, is that whatever their motivations, they may simply be wrong.
The way this guy behaves, there should be literal whistle-blowers following him everywhere he goes.
But Shearman & Sterling's findings about Wells Fargo's treatment of whistle-blowers would seem, at best, premature.
It suits whistle-blowers and Truthers, Bern-or-Bust voters and Donald Trump at 3 a.m.
That is partly because of political gridlock and partly because of entrenched attitudes toward whistle-blowers.
The government's campaign to discredit the whistle-blowers foreshadowed the Watergate break-in a year later.
The public-benefit defense, which whistle-blowers can offer in many countries, is forbidden in ours.
" Significantly, the letter quotes Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, chairman and a co-founder of the Senate's Whistleblower Protection Caucus, who noted recently that whistle-blowers "ought to be heard out and protected" and "we should always work to respect whistle-blowers' requests for confidentiality.
Tam previously helped ­whistle-blowers reveal a number of problems stemming from the HK$1.56 billion system.
Heating equipment, snow blowers, and generators are among the wide variety of products sold by Tractor Supply.
Future whistle-blowers must be persuaded that while there are always risks, the system can protect them.
But it would mean ticketing your own building, and it wouldn't stop the use of noisy blowers.
If need be, my son says we will come at her with our leaf blowers, "Ghostbusters"- style!
Contributing Opinion Writer NASHVILLE — Leaf blowers are like giant whining insects that have moved into your skull.
Leaf blowers have ruined autumn with their insistent whine and their noxious fumes, and they are everywhere.
She argues that Americans support whistle-blowing in theory, but, in practice, they treat whistle-blowers badly.
My concern is whether whistle-blowers were handled properly and to what degree the board bears responsibility.
As a lawyer for whistle-blowers, I have seen firsthand the powerful impact these laws have had.
The whistle-blowers, like Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, will be out in full force.
The government's efforts to encourage whistle-blowers by opening hotlines for victims have not worked, critics said.
"What will be next, rattles to battle kidnappings and party blowers against corruption?" one Twitter user wrote.
The Whistle-Blowers Malcolm Gladwell's comparison of the whistle-blowers Daniel Ellsberg, a member of the intelligence élite, whom Gladwell calls a true "leaker," and Edward Snowden, an outsider, whom he calls merely a "hacker," seems to glorify and belittle them, respectively ("The Outside Man," December 19th & 26th).
I always get a kick out of seeing those sweaty glass blowers moulding the scorching hot, orange material.
And a strong argument can be made that whistle-blowers should be celebrated and rewarded for their courage.
Incredibly, though, all too often the opposite occurs, and Wall Street whistle-blowers are shunned, ostracized and ignored.
Strong protection for whistle-blowers, says Ms Hoyano, is at least as important as a duty to report.
"I feel I've established that I honor the work whistle-blowers do," Mr. McKessy said in an interview.
It would be akin to protecting corporate and government whistle-blowers while leaving intact barriers to prosecuting corruption.
To some, qui-tam cases are controversial because whistle-blowers share in the money that the government recovers.
This innovative program offers eligible whistle-blowers significant employment protections, monetary awards and the ability to report anonymously.
But even if one has nothing to hide, pervasive surveillance is dangerous because we all need whistle-blowers.
In 2009, the health minister introduced a scheme to reward whistle-blowers who alerted regulators about quality problems.
Including the Merrill awards, the agency has paid a total of more than $262 million to whistle-blowers.
"The rules must be followed," said Mark S. Zaid, a national security lawyer who has represented whistle-blowers.
Two men with leaf blowers blew the morning dust off the driveway of a well-to-do home.
Workers used blowers to uncover the lines and hash marks during timeouts as a light snow fell throughout.
In the American tradition, whistle-blowers expose illegal or unconstitutional acts that the powerful want to keep secret.
Whistle-blowers are vital to a democracy, and I'm very troubled by the way they're being persecuted today.
By exposing the name — and getting away with it — he was warning off potential whistle-blowers-to-be.
Now that forces aligned with Mr. Najib are returning to power, reformists and whistle-blowers are running scared.
Intelligence Committee officials said it could potentially unpack American foreign policy toward Ukraine, or focus on whistle-blowers.
The clouds of smoke became so thick that protesters used leaf blowers to try to clear the air.
In 1986, Congress strengthened the law by increasing incentives for whistle-blowers to file lawsuits alleging false claims.
And civil servants, blocked from enforcing laws, will respect established procedures or become whistle-blowers, with legal protections.
You present notorious anecdotes as evidence that hotlines are frequently ignored or used to retaliate against whistle-blowers.
The investigations that emerged this week appear aimed mainly at other current or potential whistle-blowers in government.
Now, four former whistle-blowers who have suffered fates similar to Ms. Fleischmann's – all fired and blackballed after reporting wrongdoing — have banded together to form Bank Whistleblowers United, an advocacy group that aims to improve the status of Wall Street whistle-blowers and change the way Wall Street is regulated.
But one of the underlying thing people are asking that I talk to is, where are the whistle blowers?
I mean, President Obama has a history of gagging whistle- blowers from Benghazi, to fast and furious, to Bergdahl.
With the attachment of two leaf blowers, he transformed her traditional sled into a speedy (and loud) little buggy.
Various lash-ups, including one powered by four leaf-blowers that seems more hovercraft than hoverboard, have also appeared.
For many whistle-blowers, Mr. McKessy said, bringing fraud to light held many perils including retribution and job loss.
"I've been teaching for over a decade, and I think I've met two natural glass blowers," Ms. Peck said.
It takes someone who will champion these whistle-blowers so the efforts of those who spoke out mean something.
The following year, Congress passed a law protecting whistle-blowers, and Shaw and Marven were acquitted by a jury.
Wirecutter has advice on snow shovels, snow blowers and emergency gear to get you ready before the snow flies.
Some blowers sat on benches, nimbly manipulating 5-foot-long pipes topped with grapefruit-sized gobs of molten glass.
Some have spoken out about the cost of secrecy, taking aim at censorship and the muzzling of whistle-blowers.
Miller, who is the Editor at Large at Martha Stewart Weddings, created these blowers for Stewart's 70th birthday party.
Whistle-blowers regularly approach the committee, given its role in conducting oversight of the intelligence agencies, Mr. Boland said.
She notices that they don't turn off their blowers as she approaches, the way they do for most people.
In 2013, Mr. Castor explained that committee investigators like him are responsible for persuading whistle-blowers to come forward.
Another area that may see a cutback involves whistle-blowers who provide information to the S.E.C. about possible violations.
A professor at George Washington University Law School, he has represented whistle-blowers, members of Congress and terrorism suspects.
The Citizenry teams up with artisans in a dozen countries, including weavers in Morocco and glass blowers in Mexico.
Journalists are pushing for a softening of restrictive laws that threaten jail time for certain whistle-blowers and reporters.
If it passes, Maplewood would join a growing number of communities that have curbed the use of leaf blowers.
High-quality snow blowers make quick work of clearing snow, require minimal muscle, and serve you through many winters.
So I decided to leak the whistle-blowers to a trusted German reporter who made a high-profile documentary.
If confirmed, Mr. Barr would be in charge of administering and enforcing the law and working with whistle-blowers.
He refused to identify sources, suggesting they were whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.
The creation of WikiLeaks empowered a new generation of whistle-blowers and insiders, enraging the powerful in many countries.
Busch describes itself as one of the world's largest makers of vacuum pumps, blowers and compressors supplying all industry sectors.
Now, Congress is beginning to examine several alarming allegations from unidentified whistle-blowers that derailed the doctor's Senate confirmation process.
COLETTE G. MATZZIE Washington The writer is a partner at a law firm that focuses exclusively on representing whistle-blowers.
Then it could improve testing and carry out more investigations—Russian doping was proved after whistle-blowers raised the alarm.
The recall by the Anderson, South Carolina importer of the machines came after two reports of the snow blowers overheating.
We started with the national records and supplemented them with information obtained by former officials, whistle-blowers and local journalists.
Stepanova said this month that she thought the Olympic officials' decision would have a chilling effect on other whistle-blowers.
For example, we manufacture the pistons here that are used in our chain saws, blowers, hedge trimmers and other products.
Lawyers who represent whistle-blowers say such programs allow states to leverage their limited resources to crack down on fraud.
Under those regulations, Kohn explains, groups of whistle-blowers can come forward anonymously and be classified as a single entity.
But I doubt that all the journalists and whistle-blowers threatened with jail find it as funny as I do.
It disclosed little else about the case, saying that it is prohibited from revealing information that could identify whistle-blowers.
Mr. Stuta, one of the two whistle-blowers, said Monday that he still feared for his life despite the arrests.
The whistle-blowers who filed the case worked at Wachovia and World Savings, banks that were folded into Wells Fargo.
The subject of whistle-blowers and how they were treated was relegated to a footnote in the 110-page report.
Retaliation against whistle-blowers is endemic, especially in banking, Mr. Garrett said, pointing to recent scandals at HSBC and UBS.
We also talked to two past whistle-blowers for some perspective on what the current one must be going through.
From other houses come the sounds of dogs barking, and from other yards the noise of lawnmowers and leaf blowers.
The good people at SGS Engineers were instructed to familiarize themselves with the standard range of their company's leaf blowers.
Stricter limits would be set on the days and hours that professionals could use blowers the rest of the year.
Under the False Claims Act, whistle-blowers can collect 15 to 30 percent of the amount the federal government recovers.
The Stepanovs were the whistle-blowers who originally exposed Russia's widespread, state-sponsored doping program, before the 2016 Summer Olympics.
"Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks," Assange said in an August interview.
Others argued the company needs to "do more to screen for potential whistle-blowers during the hiring process," the Times wrote.
Both boss and bank are up before the beak: regulators are examining Mr Staley's conduct and Barclays' treatment of whistle-blowers.
"It is incumbent on the Army to ensure that he is afforded the same protections as whistle-blowers," the letter reads.
And it enables greater good: human rights workers, journalists and whistle-blowers can defend what's right without placing themselves in danger.
Competitors, solo and in ensembles, vie for the rights to call themselves among the best alpine horn blowers in the world.
"The S.E.C.'s devotion to maintaining the confidentiality of whistle-blowers is the biggest factor in the program's success," he said.
The right to privacy is an important bulwark against state overreach, and is rightly relied on by whistle-blowers and journalists.
It added that whistle-blowers should be encouraged and WADA's independence strengthened, with the agency given the investigative capacity it needs.
But Mr. Thomas had another plan: He wanted to build a law practice representing whistle-blowers seeking to expose corporate wrongdoing.
Yes. They seem to respond mostly to public opprobrium, making major ethical changes after whistle-blowers or big investigations come out.
He considered quitting and simply walking away from the issue, a familiar decision for many whistle-blowers he has spoken to.
Ordinarily, whistle-blowers have to decide between following the moral course of action and looking out for their own material security.
The weapons themselves, though, demand less of her attention than their psychological impact on three former operators and current whistle-blowers.
Ahead of the event, snow blowers cleared the stage multiple times and volunteers were frantically working to shovel walkways for people.
The auditor said the review was a response to requests from Congress, whistle-blowers and to complaints received on a hotline.
In his public comments, he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.
Last fall, that same inspector general reported that a new office formed to protect whistle-blowers often retaliated against them instead.
Mr. Kerner drew bipartisan praise for defending whistle-blowers in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing last week.
What we do know: Like most whistle-blowers, she paid a heavy price for identifying improprieties at her company in 2010.
Most landscapers use leaf blowers with two-stroke engines, which are light enough to carry but produce significant exhaust and noise.
Leaving leaves and grass clippings to mulch in place would reduce the need for blowers, and add nutrients to the soil.
Some studies have questioned whistle-blowers' motivations in bringing cases, as well as the merits of their complaints, Mr. Wilde noted.
He had to shout over the whir of blowers and the racket of machinery echoing from other regions of the hangar.
Whistle-blowers have not personally suffered an injury and therefore do not have a right, or standing, to be in court.
The firm's aim is to build cases in the United States with the help of whistle-blowers in Britain and Europe.
Since the program's inception in 2000, the securities regulator has paid out about $0003 million in rewards to 2000 whistle-blowers.
In a 30-page report, he affirmed the credibility of whistle-blowers and investigators who had followed their leads and evidence.
"She's being very careful," Mary de Haas, an expert on political killings said of the current public protector, adding that the whistle-blowers have made "life too embarrassing for the A.N.C." One of the two whistle-blowers, Thabiso Zulu, an A.N.C. anti-corruption activist, has faced death threats and has been living in hiding for months.
Whenever she acquires a new doll, Blowers and her husband put it through an intense investigation that lasts one to three months.
Yes, you'll even get to see the Alphorn blowers — they're the musicians who play those instruments you've seen in any Ricola commercial.
Milwaukee-based Gardner Denver makes industrial blowers, drilling pumps, air compressors and other machines used in the industrial, energy and medical sectors.
Russian whistle-blowers have come forward with evidence of shadow laboratories, tampering by state intelligence officers and swapped samples at the Olympics.
Both the promise of anonymity and of an award, Kohn says, are critical to getting international wildlife whistle-blowers to come forward.
And "National Bird," a documentary about drone program whistle-blowers by Sonia Kennebeck, will play at the Tribeca Film Festival next month.
Alexander Ovechkin, meanwhile, reached another milestone, passing Hall of Famer Joe Sakic on the all-time list for snow blowers successfully operated.
Other former dancers described a culture of fear about speaking up, retribution for whistle-blowers and enabling by the board and management.
The new site operates roughly on the model pioneered by WikiLeaks — inviting hackers and whistle-blowers to send confidential documents for posting.
Blowers have benefits for space-constrained cases, but for everyone else, a dual- or triple-fan system will be far more efficient.
A recent news report erroneously claimed that the intelligence community until recently required that whistle-blowers have first-hand knowledge of events.
Since "Hooked," whistle-blowers like Google's former in-house ethicist, Tristan Harris, have popularized the idea that phones are unhealthy and addictive.
The Obama Administration was especially assiduous in its pursuit of whistle-blowers, and President Trump has also singled them out for scorn.
It was a short step from taking outsize risks to fleecing customers — but when whistle-blowers reported concerns, they were shoved aside.
Whistle-blowers often seek to remain anonymous, but it seems plausible that the author of the Trump complaint could eventually be revealed.
For successful whistle-blowers, the rules carry an important reminder: "Informants can pick up the reward within 90 days of receiving notification."
Mr. Obama's White House was particularly aggressive in seeking the source of leaks, prosecuting more whistle-blowers than all his predecessors combined.
The initial revelations of Russia's doping program were a result of the bravery of the whistle-blowers Yuliya Stepanova and Vitaly Stepanov.
They may also discover that the Justice Department is not the only United States government entity offering rich bounties for whistle-blowers.
The idea behind WikiLeaks is simple, and ingenious: an online drop box that provides maximum security for whistle-blowers in the digital age.
But the new law violates an EU directive by failing to protect whistle-blowers, who would have to identify themselves to submit evidence.
To celebrate, Bentley is showcasing more than 50 classic Bentleys, including three of the worlds four remaining Bentley Blowers, at this year's Concours.
Amazon is offering a variety of Greenworks mowers, trimmers, leaf blowers, and more tools to help you keep your yard clean and tidy.
Lawyers and journalists had unsuccessfully sought the footage under freedom-of-information laws; whistle-blowers apparently enabled the ABC finally to reveal it.
The agency also has been accused in recent years of mistreating passengers, retaliating against whistle blowers, handing out excessive bonuses and wasteful spending.
"We're not talking about acne cream here," said Patrick Burns, the executive director of Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocacy group for whistle-blowers.
And for the future, the bodies that govern international Olympic competition must establish a new mechanism to protect whistle-blowers like the Stepanovs.
Several of the whistle-blowers are decorated military veterans; others have worked at the agency for years without a blemish on their records.
Mr. McKessy said that whistle-blowers under the S.E.C.'s program had prospered because the S.E.C. guaranteed anonymity to those who come forward.
Aggrieved students, graduates who found their degrees of little value, even insiders who became whistle-blowers turned to online websites and watchdog groups.
And it is true that the Chinese government suppressed information and punished whistle-blowers, hiding the potential danger until it was too late.
Our destination: the Rainier Glass Studio, which offered up free beers and a chance to watch three sets of glass blowers working simultaneously.
It was set in motion by civil servants — whistle-blowers from the intelligence community, now supported by National Security Council staffers and diplomats.
In its 2013 survey of 42 whistle-blowers, the Horuragi Foundation found that 60 percent were fired after exposing corruption in their organizations.
"This is part of an avowed war on whistle-blowers to include investigative journalists and publishers," Mr. Summers told the court last year.
There are typewriters, cellphones, fingernail clippers, washing machines, toilet bowls, parking meters, snow blowers, deer hunting stands, rowboats, cars and much, much more.
Growing up in Asheville, N.C., I was surrounded by potters, people who made jewelry, and glass blowers — although I've never gotten into glass.
In 1998, she helped write a law protecting intelligence community whistle-blowers — the same law that Democrats argue that Mr. Trump is flouting.
Some Wells Fargo bankers appear to have signed people up for MyTerm without telling them, according to the three whistle-blowers from Prudential.
On March 21, the Township Committee will vote on an ordinance to prohibit commercial use of blowers from May 15 through Sept. 30.
Workers were using heavy-duty backpack blowers to clear debris on the ground and firefighters were spraying the remaining hot spots with water.
On March 268, the Township Committee will vote on an ordinance to prohibit commercial use of blowers from May 21994 through Sept. 2365.
A 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report lists leaf blowers as a common noise that can contribute to permanent hearing loss.
Years after whistle-blowers first revealed wholesale doping in Russia, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at last decided to bar it from taking part.
Case in point: Blowers said he doesn't recall the 2013 controversial police shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell, which also led to protests in Charlotte.
The law of 2016 also explicitly reserves its protections for whistle-blowers working to expose law-breaking by officials, or campaigners for human rights.
Here's what is happening: Efficiency: The Department of Energy (DOE) is releasing data to support possible energy conservation standards for industrial fans and blowers.
One World is recalling about 300 Ryobi 40-Volt Brushless Snow Blowers in the United States and roughly 370 in Canada, the statement said.
When he headed the whistle-blower office, he said, he made it a point to tell corporations that whistle-blowers were not the enemy.
Recently, other whistle-blowers told The Times of London that doping is systemic in swimming, prompting an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The World Anti-Doping Agency recently translated that nearly 100-page document to Russian, hoping it would inspire additional whistle-blowers to come forward.
She comes from that peculiar band of prophets, the whistle-blowers and dissenters who demand our attention by their bold acts of civil disobedience.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer said a second federal law, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, provided protection to whistle-blowers who reported wrongdoing to their employers.
Why did no one with authority in the agency step in to stop him, or support whistle-blowers who tried to speak the truth?
They also urged the administration to stop suing journalists to discover their sources and to stop using the Espionage Act to pursue whistle-blowers.
She brought me to the workshop of Italo Varisco, a renowned crystal maker and engraver, Treviso's answer to Venice's Murano island of glass blowers.
Using street sweepers, backpack blowers, and push brooms, they will remove the 57 tons of material that's left behind, none of which is recycled.
Master blowers, as the more experienced artisans are designated, work closely with the newer ones, grooming them to become future masters, Ms. Nori said.
The central health authorities first learned about the outbreak not from the reporting system but after unknown whistle-blowers leaked two internal documents online.
Interviews with more than 240 people, including numerous whistle-blowers, helped expose what was going on behind the boardroom doors at generic-drug companies.
Early last year, according to Nissan, whistle-blowers found evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. Ghosn and took their findings to former prosecutors for advice.
The Public Protector had a message for Mr. Ramaphosa as well: The president should "take urgent and appropriate steps" to protect the whistle-blowers.
A lot of women have been whistle-blowers in the past, and a lot of them have just gotten torn down and treated terribly.
We know from the work we did as prosecutors and investigators that whistle-blowers are essential to exposing corruption and holding the corrupt accountable.
But his outspokenness has come as a surprise to some, given the risks whistle-blowers with information related to the case appear to face.
And act decisively they did — not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.
"They do whatever it takes to find an excuse to expel whistle-blowers," said Lee Young-kee, a lawyer who heads the Horuragi Foundation.
Today, however, the president of the United States is possibly involved in a multinational scheme to suppress votes, discredit rivals and threaten whistle-blowers.
Vast numbers of impoverished farmers and workers died, for the government response was not to help those infected but to punish doctor whistle-blowers.
Alexander Vindman, Ambassador Gordon Sondland and others, no one should ever again question the need for whistle-blowers to maintain anonymity, if they wish.
"And what the intent of the law was to secure, in cases like this, to secure our intelligence and to protect our whistle-blowers."
In addition to speaking with some of the victims during his hour-long program, Holt will speak with the whistle blowers who alerted the authorities.
There are lawn blowers making a tremendous noise on our street, and it's freaking the dog out so much he won't do a number two.
And one of the reasons why there are not rank and file whistle blowers coming forward is there is a pay system in the FBI.
This included corporate and government records; data on land sales and leases; and leaked documents and nonpublic land records received from whistle-blowers and researchers.
Whatever Bach does, he at least should acknowledge the value of the whistle-blowers in all of this mess, and thank them for their work.
Whistle-blowers can now share between fifteen and twenty-five per cent of the recovery, depending on such factors as the importance of their contribution.
Dr. Portugalov came to global prominence in 2014 when two Russian whistle-blowers identified him as a linchpin distributor in Russia's state-run doping scheme.
Like the Trump administration, the Australian government seems determined to frighten whistle-blowers into silence and to undermine the core journalistic tool of source confidentiality.
Still, additional bureaucratic checks — say regular personalized audits and a direct line between whistle-blowers and the board of directors — might be even more effective.
Whistle-blowers are often complicated people with a tangle of motives, and dueling memoirs aren't necessarily the ideal place to tease out the definitive truth.
In insisting on speaking truth to power at great personal sacrifice, whistle-blowers serve their country and challenge all of us to think for ourselves.
In 2018, Washington, D.C. moved to phase out gas-powered leaf blowers, according to NBC4, with the ban going into full effect in January 2022.
Whistle-blowers reported financial straits, divorces and suicidal impulses as they were ostracized by their colleagues and harassed with defamation and other lawsuits from managers.
Fair Game Here is something to celebrate: The United States Supreme Court just handed whistle-blowers one of their bigger wins in a long time.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who is leading the House's impeachment inquiry, urged other potential whistle-blowers to come forward on Sunday night.
Dr. Li's death provoked anger and frustration at how the Chinese government mishandled the situation by not sharing information earlier and silencing whistle-blowers. Feb.
That answer did not impress Tom Devine, the legal director of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that is an advocate for whistle-blowers.
Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined.
In 2014, two whistle-blowers — Vitaly Stepanov, an antidoping worker in Russia, and Yuliya Stepanova, a professional runner — spoke out about doping by Russian athletes.
Greens quickly were covered by the tiny white pellets, and workers went from using squeegees for excess water to power blowers to remove the hail.
"As whistle-blowers, we never imagined things going this far, and it's surreal that the cheats won't be welcomed at the Olympic Games," Vitaly said.
Soon they were reporting rashes and stomach ailments, and whistle-blowers eventually pointed to alarming levels of lead in the water supply and in children's blood.
Dr. Li's death provoked anger and frustration at how the Chinese government mishandled the situation by not sharing information earlier and by silencing whistle-blowers. Feb.
He pointedly thanked the whistle-blowers who detected the lead levels in the water and in children's blood, prompting a flurry of action in recent weeks.
"Our author knows that the president is determined to unmask whistle-blowers who may be in his midst," the agents' firm, Javelin, said in a statement.
A hearing last month featured three T.S.A. whistle-blowers, all of them senior managers, who said the agency remained plagued by poor leadership and inadequate oversight.
As you may have noticed, whistle-blowers are very much in the news these days, and Tye is very much in the center of that world.
He requires campaign staff members to sign nondisclosure agreements; in government, these could be used to go after federal whistle-blowers and any reporters they contact.
"It's disturbing to me how many whistle-blowers have told me that had they known what they would go through they would never have come forward."
"The bottleneck is still back in the V.A.," said Dr. Sam Foote, a retired physician who was one of the primary whistle-blowers in the scandal.
What Its Members Believe: They oppose the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, the use of torture, the war in Afghanistan and the prosecution of whistle-blowers.
Banks had appeared before Parliament and denied that Eldon employees had worked simultaneously on the political campaign—but, months later, he was countered by whistle-blowers.
The board approved a policy to protect whistle-blowers, as well as a proposal to empower WADA to discipline sports organizations and national delegations of athletes.
Kohn pitched a new website that would encourage international whistle-blowers to report instances of wildlife crime by giving them a secure way to do it.
After all, the legislation to create inspectors general and to protect whistle-blowers is the public's last resort for holding the government accountable for its misdeeds.
This perhaps underlines why the Russian whistle-blowers, a husband and wife, who told all to the German documentary crew, remain in hiding in Western Europe.
We took them to Lake Merritt in Oakland, an urban treasure with all manner of spectacle on the paved paths: drummers, cavorting capoeira dancers, bubble blowers.
Yes, a blanket ban might have hurt some clean Russian athletes, but it would also have been a motivation for future whistle-blowers to come forward.
In it, he blamed the government for silencing whistle-blowers and trying to conceal the outbreak, which began in the central city of Wuhan in December.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court issued four decisions on Wednesday, including ones on international terrorism, whistle-blowers in securities cases and civil rights suits filed by prisoners.
In order to achieve this, the United Nations must hold every level of management accountable, protect whistle-blowers and focus on results rather than on process.
"I've been working with whistle-blowers for 40 years," says Tom Devine, legal director at the Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower protection and advocacy organization.
Tejinder Singh, a partner at Goldstein & Russell who represents Mr. Bishop and Mr. Kraus, said the government's filing in the case will benefit future whistle-blowers.
Her courage in seeing this important case through serves as a reminder to all who consider retaliating against whistle-blowers: You do so at your peril.
The math here is simple: The fewer whistle-blowers there might be, the less likely the agency will be able to open investigations of corporate misconduct.
There's plenty of reason to doubt the official numbers—Chinese officials initially covered up the virus and arrested whistle-blowers who tried to expose the outbreak.
Volution Group, which did not specify the items it was stocking up, mainly supplies products for residential and commercial ventilation applications including motors, fans and blowers.
"Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks," Mr. Assange said in the interview, with a Dutch television station.
"Most of the big cases of cheating have been revealed because of whistle-blowers," said Johann Koss, the speedskating medalist and a founder of Fair Sport.
Mr. Johnson in the past has been an outspoken advocate of protections for whistle-blowers and oversaw a hearing in 2015 where he emphasized their importance.
But it is common for whistle-blowers to be erratic and slow to produce their evidence, and The Times thought it was worth investigating Kessler's claims.
Oortman spent between 20,000 and 30,000 guilders — between $275,000 and $412,000 in today's money — and hired real cabinetmakers, glass blowers and silversmiths to make its contents.
Mr. Edelman has now filed a complaint with the Energy Department's inspector general and, according to his lawyer, is seeking protections provided to federal whistle-blowers.
Kat Blowers, whose Etsy shop FugitiveKatCreations specializes in haunted dolls, says best-sellers tend to be inhabited by female spirits that have some sort of "empowerment" angle.
Like the fragile glass vessels made by master blowers solely for display in princely treasure rooms of the period, these cards were created as works of art.
Australian banks have themselves promised unprecedented reforms to protect consumers and boost transparency, including reviewing sales commissions, supporting whistle-blowers and black-listing individuals for poor conduct.
In these efforts, Mr. Trump has tried to present himself as an advocate for whistle-blowers, falsely claiming that he had been behind legislation to protect them.
Australian banks in April promised unprecedented reforms to protect consumers and boost transparency, including reviewing sales commissions, supporting whistle-blowers and black-listing individuals for poor conduct.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, a growing army of confidential informants — better known as whistle-blowers — has helped federal securities regulators identify and prosecute wrongdoers.
What's more, many of those whistle-blowers have remained anonymous, which has given confidence to others who want to come forward without risking their jobs and careers.
Kohn is the author of the 568-page tome, which maps out 22.2 rules for whistle-blowers interspersed with stories from his 222 years in the business.
"The potential breach of client confidentiality is a huge touch-button issue for the regulators these days," said Ross Intelisano, a lawyer who represents corporate whistle-blowers.
Police received a complaint of spray-painted "scribbles" on the memorial, though there didn't seem to be anything specific written, assistant city manager Adam Blowers told CNN.
Our reporting often relies on leaks from whistle-blowers, personal communications of government officials obtained through records requests and computer-driven analysis of huge sets of data.
Officials also took into account a giant database regulators obtained from whistle-blowers last fall, reflecting incriminating drug tests from Russia's national drug-testing lab in Moscow.
His administration has even resisted official demands to provide police protection for two A.N.C. whistle-blowers in the case surrounding Mr. Magaqa's murder, baffling some anticorruption officials.
The track department, Mr. Tame said, must then prepare a small fleet of jet-turbine-powered snow blowers for the next, and longer, climate conflict: "snow season."
Mueller, who interviewed more than two hundred whistle-blowers and profiles half a dozen, focusses on the corporate kind, especially in the health-care and finance industries.
For the men and women in the Nike Oregon Project who became whistle-blowers in the case against Alberto Salazar, it has been a long 10 years.
Bosasa has been accused by several whistle-blowers, including its former chief operating officer, of using bribes "like monopoly money" to win lucrative contracts from government officials.
The stories of malevolence brought to light by whistle-blowers like Richard M. Bowen III at Citigroup and Alayne Fleischmann at JPMorgan Chase have been well documented.
The judge wrote that it would be unreasonable to expect whistle-blowers to finance their own legal representation while they put their jobs and paychecks at risk.
When I ask him about the irony of calling himself out, he says it's only natural that whistle-blowers are often participants in the wrongdoing they're exposing.
Volution Group mainly supplies products for residential and commercial ventilation applications including motors, fans and blowers connected to brand names like Vent-Axia, Manrose and Torin-Sifan.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, waged a furious war against leaks during his eight years in office, prosecuting more whistle-blowers than all of his predecessors combined.
Michelle Inciarrano and Katy Maslow source the plants for the creative pieces from local nurseries, and the glass — some of it handblown — from small glass blowers nationwide.
And since then, whistle-blowers have shown how the energy companies that moved into the area have been leaking harmful chemicals into the earth on the reservation.
In November, she became one of the lead co-sponsors of the "Me Too Congress Act" to improve the process for whistle-blowers and victims inside Congress.
In the real world — the one in which politicians don't need color filters to seem ominous and whistle-blowers are merely discredited or imprisoned — conspiracies are common.
Blowers then places the doll in a sound box ("basically a foam box"), with a voice-activated recorder to see if she can hear any words or phrases.
The FTC has even set up a dedicated email for Equifax whistle-blowers to use if they don't think the company is adhering to its data security obligations.
"There will no agreement around consolidation or harmonizing renewable energy targets across different states," said David Blowers, an energy fellow at the Grattan Institute, an Australian think-thank.
"We've seen political opposition leaders and activists, whistle-blowers, anti-corruption campaigners and independent journalists lose their lives in one way or another," Kara-Murza told USA TODAY.
And then Memphis limited the Dubs to 13 points in the fourth quarter, forced overtime, and snatched the W right out of the 3-1 lead blowers' clutches.
Spain, on the other hand, is among a handful of European nations without legislation for whistle-blowers, according to a 20113 study by Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization.
The doping corruption begins at the highest reaches of the Ministry of Sport, they assert, and extends downward, accompanied by the suspicious deaths of two potential whistle-blowers.
Tips from whistle-blowers have resulted in orders for more than $500 million in financial remedies, much of which has been returned to harmed investors, the S.E.C. said.
In the case of snow blowers, for instance, the presence of any ethanol causes them to cough, splutter and cease to shift the white stuff from our driveways.
She filed a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board, a quasi-judicial agency that protects whistle-blowers, saying she was fired because she exposed national security concerns.
Dr. Allen and Dr. McPherson were aided with their letter describing shortcomings at those facilities by the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit that works with government whistle-blowers.
Small, ragtag citizen groups abound, though they're focused mostly on addressing nuisances: banning gas-powered leaf blowers, cracking down on car stereos, limiting noise from a nearby airport.
For a Safer, Easier Winter, Prep Your Home Now Wirecutter has advice on snow shovels, snow blowers and emergency gear to get you ready before the snow flies.
The case required the court to interpret language in the Dodd-Frank law that provides a shield against retaliation for whistle-blowers who disclose violations of securities laws.
The protection of whistle-blowers who disclose information that is clearly in the public interest is grounded in the rights to freedom of expression and access to information.
They have deprived Americans of some of the nation's most dogged, experienced crime fighters, falsely accusing whistle-blowers of criminal wrongdoing and mocking their invocation of constitutional rights.
But government resources alone will never be sufficient, so states should pass laws allowing whistle-blowers to bring cases on behalf of the government in workplace-related cases.
But the groups expect progress to be slow because of broad political gridlock as well as entrenched attitudes toward whistle-blowers, especially among government officials and corporate executives.
Now 58, he has represented whistle-blowers, judges, members of Congress and terrorism suspects and is a prolific writer and Twitter user and a frequently cited legal expert.
Even Hu Xijin, the editor of the nationalistic Global Times, has called out the Wuhan government for silencing whistle-blowers in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Inspired by the Russian doping scandal, a new nonprofit foundation is offering financial and legal assistance to whistle-blowers with information about cheating in international sports.
But the costs to whistle-blowers are high; they often face retaliation from their employers and are unable to find work because they are blackballed in their industry.
Still, Mr. Wilde's research confirms the crucial roles whistle-blowers play not only as powerful monitors in corporate settings but also as agents of change within these companies.
Lawyers for whistle-blowers said Mr. Barr fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of the False Claims Act and the 1986 amendments, adopted to address widespread fraud by federal contractors.
He regarded the media as a cudgel for his cases, maximizing exposure, inviting new evidence from would-be whistle-blowers and sometimes inciting responses from the White House.
We had whistle blowers that came to us in late 2016 who talked to us about this laptop sitting up in New York that had additional emails on it.
"Gab relies on a number of whistle-blowers working in Silicon Valley, reputable hacktivists, and yes, sometimes journalists, along with members of our community for this information," Sanduja wrote.
Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Rafizi's conviction under the OSA was "unprecedented" and the act was used to "intimidate whistle-blowers into silence".
The text was expected to include proposals for citizen watchdogs, protections for whistle-blowers and the press, more transparency in government contracts and the sharing of information by prosecutors.
We were entering a fascinating, albeit messy, new age of political contestation—of protesters, hackers, whistle-blowers, rioters, and radical challenges to both Republican and Democratic politics as usual.
New laws should focus on wrongdoing in such bodies, requiring people within them to report reasonable suspicions about a colleague; these should be coupled with protection for whistle-blowers.
The agency repeated its explanation for not taking action for at least four years, after multiple whistle-blowers from within Russia had contacted the agency and offered to cooperate.
In the wake of the allegations made by the Stepanovs and other whistle-blowers, sports officials have called for better policies for the reporting and investigation of possible wrongdoing.
It is also caused by continuous or long-term exposure without protection to loud sounds such as heavy traffic, construction or factory machinery, leaf blowers, lawnmowers and shop tools.
Whistle-blowers are usually, but not always, employees or members of the group on which they're blowing the whistle; after they do so, their lives are never the same.
The organization must protect its whistle blowers, and the rationale of why the person is blowing the whistle is not as important as the facts that they are giving.
But what the government, including the Obama administration, has done is to put heat on the media to disclose the names of whistle-blowers involved in national security leaks.
But not Olen Steinhauer's "Berlin Station," a moody, tense thriller set in the Berlin branch of the C.I.A.; the show deals with damaging leaks, whistle-blowers, terrorism and more.
It also seeks to protect whistle-blowers from retaliation, making it illegal to take "adverse action" against a person because he or she has disclosed information about doping fraud.
A second whistle-blower in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump has firsthand knowledge of his dealings with Ukraine, according to the legal team now representing both whistle-blowers.
Scope: In Russia, independent journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistle-blowers and others are smeared in the news media, jailed on dubious charges and, in some cases, killed.
Several expressed fear that other witnesses would come forward in relation to Mr. Trump's contacts with the Ukrainian president, or that other whistle-blowers on other matters would emerge.
The students' hands didn't have blowers pointed at them; eventually, their fingers could no longer grasp their charcoal and we'd stop, then all head off together to a bar.
It would go a long way if Wells Fargo publicly admitted that at least some whistle-blowers had been mistreated, and rewarded them rather than fighting them in court.
According to Blowers, most haunted items are inhabited by dead souls who are holding on, possibly because they have some kind of unfinished business here in the earthly realm.
When the Wall Street Journal pursued an exposé of Theranos's deceptive business practices, Boies vehemently warned against publishing the article, and worked to silence whistle-blowers within the company.
Again, we often think about noise as being this kind of 1 percent problem, something that people, you know, they complain about the leaf blowers at their vacation homes.
"It is a rancorous story about whistle-blowers, Mr. Giuliani, side channels, quid pro quos, corruption and interference in elections," Taylor said, referring to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
You will also need to face the fact that people known to be whistle-blowers can pay a social penalty and may have a hard time finding future employment.
This time he's turned a BMW E30 into a drivable hot tub, complete with a pair of leaf blowers used to generate bubbles, and a barbecue grill in the trunk.
The marketing materials for the scores of companies that make these hot-air blowers will tell you that they are a great way to cook that cuts down on fat.
Grassley has been one of the FBI's fiercest critics over the years, criticizing misconduct and disciplinary problems and pushing for greater legal protection for internal whistle-blowers who report abuses.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One World Technologies Inc is recalling about 670 Ryobi snow blowers because they can overheat and cause a fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday.
Only after Ms. Scott and others, including the Russian whistle-blowers, insisted on the commission's independence, did WADA appoint an outsider, the esteemed sports arbitrator Richard McLaren, to lead it.
On the other hand, there are still a lot of whistle-blowers, including some of our clients, who are able to make disclosures and hold institutions accountable while remaining anonymous.
As the scandal caused by Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme shows, it is as much a matter of taking whistle-blowers seriously as it is getting them in the door.
BECKY QUICK: I don't know this first-hand, but from what's been reported, there have been many whistle-blowers who said that they were trying to do the right thing.
Except for the chatter of the merry-makers, the primary sounds of the streets were snow shovels striking pavement, the occasional police car siren and the hum of snow blowers.
"Real change will occur when victims of sexual assaults are not stigmatized as whistle blowers, or people with some kind of agenda for coming forward," Douglas said in a statement.
The designer "also has the unique skill to know the colors, the blowers and the bird species," said Kaisa Koivisto, the chief curator at the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimaki.
Congress has demonstrated bipartisan willingness to step up for inspectors general in the past, and last year it expanded the types and scope of protection offered to government whistle-blowers.
But he said in the interview on Wednesday that he was "very confident" about the evidence, which he said had been provided by whistle-blowers working at the electoral commission.
To the Editor: The pressing issue right now is not impeachment but following the rule of law with regard to whistle-blowers who cite a concern for our national security.
Yes, Weinstein's board members looked the other way long after they knew; yes, The National Enquirer and Black Cube security snoops deep-sixed damaging accounts and shut down whistle-blowers.
Though the White House has stonewalled Democrats in Congress investigating allegations from the special counsel's report, the president has little similar ability to stymie whistle-blowers from speaking to Congress.
"Whistle-blowers are typically treated horribly, even in the government, let alone in the private sector," said Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Strapped in a pack to a worker's back, these blowers plow through leaves, grass clippings, debris and light snow, making it possible for a landscaper to quickly clear a property.
Another American law firm, Phillips & Cohen, also looks overseas for such cases, renting shared office space in London for lawyers from the United States to meet with potential whistle-blowers.
A seven-year investigation by the French financial authorities began when several whistle-blowers at UBS France alleged that UBS bankers in France and Switzerland were engaging in illegal activity.
And given that whistle-blowers contacted the organisations about Russian cheating as early as 2010, they may have a hard time explaining why their re-testing efforts are only occurring now.
Korean Air whistle-blowers have also accused the Cho family of illegally bringing in luxury items from abroad, disguising them as company goods to avoid tariffs and to save transport expenses.
Earlier this month, the OECD launched a portal where whistle-blowers can anonymously report schemes designed to circumvent its tax-transparency standard; they can even upload documents, such as marketing materials.
But this web of secrecy has started to crumble in recent years due in part to revelations from whistle-blowers embedded in this complex web of tax havens and fake corporations.
Isinbayeva, among 67 Russian track and field athletes ruled out of the Rio Olympics last , has questioned the validity of the evidence against Russian athletes and has attacked Russian whistle-blowers.
So if getting rid of the leaves that are smothering your lawn is on your to-do list, then Amazon's got a sale on leaf blowers today to help you out.
That inquiry, prompted by accusations from two whistle-blowers in Russian athletics — first published by the German public broadcaster ARD — put Dr. Rodchenkov squarely at the center of a national conspiracy.
Countries like the United States and Britain have longstanding laws to protect whistle-blowers, and since 2010, Hungary, Slovenia, France, Luxembourg, Ireland and Belgium have all enacted varying levels of protection.
He said officials' concerns for the personal safety of whistle-blowers only raised questions about whether the regulator had proper policies in place to solicit information and protect people from retaliation.
Like any situation involving trauma, there's some deflection ("The Ricklantis Mixup") and some unhealthy coping mechanisms ("Morty's Mind-Blowers"), but these are side effects all but inherent to acknowledging painful events.
Such pressure, chilling the willingness of whistle-blowers to make (often lawbreaking) revelations that the media would otherwise be unable to obtain, is tantamount to an authoritarian intrusion on press freedom.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed ready on Tuesday to interpret a federal law protecting whistle-blowers narrowly, barring many retaliation suits from people who say they were fired for reporting wrongdoing.
But there are no whistle-blowers in Clark's book, no single bureaucrat who decided to poison the children of the city in order to save a few bucks in the budget.
The Merrill whistle-blowers helped the S.E.C. build a case that accused the Wall Street firm of improperly risking customer assets in order to generate trading profits from 2009 through 2012.
Before there was #MeToo, the director Lizzie Borden imagined literal whistle-blowers: the heroines in this indie classic who bicycle around New York protecting women from harassers and would-be rapists.
And you can't not have drone shots in a movie about drones, like Sonia Kennebeck's "National Bird," which follows whistle-blowers on the American military's controversial use of drones in combat.
It would require the city to create better supervision, new standards and record-keeping for the use of force, protection for whistle-blowers and measures to prevent officer collusion during investigations.
It passed a law for access to information, and another to protect whistle-blowers, but also supports a reconciliation law for businessmen under investigation that opponents say would whitewash their crimes.
" If company executives have a reputation for retaliating against whistle-blowers, he added, "the leadership of Barclays will be disadvantaged because fewer people are going to be telling them about problems.
Because the second official has met with Mr. Atkinson's office, it was unclear whether he needs to file a complaint to gain the legal protections offered to intelligence community whistle-blowers.
But these are distinctions the Obama administration has not necessarily made in its treatment of classified information when dealing with news organizations, whistle-blowers or government officials accused of leaking information.
Hempowicz hopes that, as a result of the current complaint, Congress will step in and provide greater clarity about how whistle-blowers from intelligence agencies will be protected in the future.
The charges against Mr. Greenwald raise concerns among journalists and advocates for a free press because journalists often rely on confidential or leaked information, sometimes obtained by whistle-blowers or hackers.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right of federal employees to speak out on public issues as private individuals, and there are robust laws protecting whistle-blowers in the government workforce.
"The system works best when agencies use our findings to both assist whistle-blowers who wrongly were retaliated against and to discipline managers appropriately," said Carolyn Lerner, who heads the office.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, Republican of California, said that he planned to bring the whistle-blowers before the committees to ask them about the report's findings.
But come springtime, they vibrate with the hum of lawn mowers, edgers, trimmers and leaf blowers; the accompanying noise continues until the last leaves fall from the trees in early December.
Now that Pinto has been arrested on a Portuguese warrant, his case represents a high-profile test of a Hungarian law passed in 2014 that affords special protection to whistle-blowers.
Except by "load" he wanted me to draw him in cosplay with one of those slime blowers from Ghostbusters 2, doing a rocker salute with one hand and Janine loving it.
Journalists, whistle-blowers and activists are keenly aware that critics of the government often pay a price, whether in the form of "trolling" on the internet, harassment by officials or spurious lawsuits.
"The Denel Board has been approached by various whistle-blowers presenting a number of allegations of serious misconduct against Mr Mhlwana and a few other senior employees of Denel," the statement read.
Whistle-blowers submitted material that proved corruption of the former Kenyan president, tax-avoidance strategies employed by big European banks, and indiscriminate killings of civilians by an American attack helicopter in Iraq.
Dewalt's current battery technology maxes out at 40-volts and is primarily designed for use in outdoor tools that often rely on gas engines for power—think leaf blowers and weed trimmers.
We&aposre hearing word here at Fox News that there may be some people coming forward, maybe some whistle blowers that might like to talk about how James Comey ran these operations.
"Modern glass blowers have tried to copy the Blaschkas, and they can't," says Italian photographer Guido Mocafico, who spent several years traveling to museums across Europe to shoot hundreds of Blaschka models.
Former Moscow laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov was one of the early whistle blowers in the Russian doping investigation and says that he assisted in helping Russian athletes evade positive tests in Sochi.
While he was the first in Philly's Fishtown area to make a name for himself in the field, today there are five glass studios and 18 glass blowers on his block alone.
The Russian track-and-field scandal could not demonstrate more clearly how much the enforcement of the WADA code in individual countries relies on international governing bodies' ability to protect whistle-blowers.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued recalls for battery packs, snow blowers, hoverboards, flashlights and power recliners in the past year, all because of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries.
Still, he scoffed repeatedly at the names of Dr. Rodchenkov and the other whistle-blowers who have alleged systematic doping in Russia, waving his hands dismissively and averting his otherwise intense stare.
Among Mr. Ross's journalistic highlights was a 2011 report on sexual assault in the Peace Corps, which helped prompt a federal law aimed at protecting victims and whistle-blowers in the organization.
"I am wearing black to thank and honor all of the brave whistle-blowers who came forward and share their stories of harassment and assault and discrimination," Ms. Messing told the E!
The raid of Mr. Carmody's apartment took place in the wake of President Trump's frequent anti-press remarks and the federal government's prosecutions of the whistle-blowers Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner.
There's a growing movement urging homeowners to put down their rakes and blowers and mow the foliage instead, leaving what's under your shrubs alone to preserve a natural habitat for little critters.
These teams descend on homes en masse with their noisy, polluting leaf blowers, and in under an hour, obliterate any sign of life from a property, leaving behind a gloriously tidy lawn.
Although the Justice Department's filing does not opine on the whistle-blowers' claims, it argues that an appellate court should revise the analysis it made when it dismissed the case last year.
At the same time, the law aims to better protect whistle-blowers by establishing a new office within the department to handle reports of wrongdoing and train employees on whistle-blower rights.
He and his handmaidens have disseminated distortion after distortion, lie upon lie, including the claim that deep-state officials tweaked the criteria for whistle-blowers just so that someone could ensnare him.
The Chinese government silenced whistle-blowers, withheld crucial information and played down the threat posed by the new coronavirus, allowing an epidemic that has killed thousands to take hold across the country.
The latest accusations come as the T.S.A. is under fire from Congress for retaliating against whistle-blowers at the agency who have spoken out about security lapses at a number of airports.
For many people in China, the doctor's death shook loose pent-up anger and frustration at how the government mishandled the situation by not sharing information earlier and by silencing whistle-blowers.
Mr. Maguire, who is among a handful of top intelligence officials who know about the complaint's contents, said he was committed to protecting whistle-blowers and appeared to defend the current complainant.
"We have always stated that we agreed to represent Ukrainian whistle-blowers," Mark Corallo, a representative for the law firm of Ms. Toensing and Mr. diGenova, said in a statement on Wednesday.
The act says that Congress must approve such exports, and at least one of the whistle-blowers that went to the Democrats claimed that officials involved ignored warnings about such legal requirements.
But it took Democratic control of the House, and the committee, to shine a light on these dark dealings in the report, which draws on claims by multiple whistle-blowers and documents.
" In a statement Friday evening, Douglas said that "real change will occur when victims of sexual assaults are not stigmatized as whistle blowers, or people with some kind of agenda for coming forward.
The recent development of state laws that allow companies to sue whistle-blowers — whether for videotaping animal cruelty or documenting other wrongdoing — is simply a way to intimidate individuals from blowing the whistle.
Dozens of Russian sports people risk being excluded from international competitions, including this summer's Olympics in Rio, after whistle blowers alleged there was a systematic doping programme operating for years in Russian sport.
"As chief of the S.E.C.'s whistle-blower office, Sean was a tireless advocate for whistle-blowers and the S.E.C.'s whistle-blower program," said Erika A. Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen.
The problems at Northport come two years after whistle-blowers revealed widespread dysfunction and corruption at a V.A. hospital in Phoenix, where it was reported that veterans were dying while waiting for care.
The grounds crew struggled to get the water off the field and was using leaf blowers in an unsuccessful attempt to remove the water before the game was postponed at 8:49 p.m.
However it turns out, as the chaos unfolds with athletes preparing to head to Rio, Bach has stomped upon a group of good people in the Olympic movement: clean athletes and whistle-blowers.
Whistle-blowers can perform a vital role in protecting human rights, and those who disclose rights violations that are shielded by an official cloak of secrecy are among the most important of all.
In relation both to Project Dragonfly and to Google's involvement in the US government's drone programme, Project Maven, whistle-blowers have been crucial in bringing ethical concerns over Google's operations to public attention.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's police minister rejected an earlier recommendation by the public protector's office to provide police protection for two A.N.C. whistle-blowers who came forward with information about the killings in Umzimkhulu.
The hot shop appears to be a chaotic place to the untrained eye, yet the 60 or so blowers who work here often are compared to dancers carrying out a highly choreographed performance.
Until recently, one dominant story line was that the epidemic in China spiraled out of control because the authorities cracked down on early whistle-blowers in late December, allowing the virus to spread.
The court unanimously ruled that a federal law protecting whistle-blowers in securities cases must be read narrowly to bar many retaliation suits from people who say they were fired for reporting wrongdoing.
Manning told me that she was relieved, and not only for the obvious reasons: She worried that an aiding-the-enemy charge would set a frightening precedent for the prosecution of whistle-blowers.
The impeachment case against Mr. Trump, built largely on the testimony of officials who actually worked for him, reinforced his view that the government is full of leakers, plotters, whistle-blowers and traitors.
While the whistle-blower who exposed President Trump's violation of his duty to our nation will get a swift and thorough investigation by the House, many whistle-blowers have to fight corruption alone.
Many people in the United States traditionally see the leak of confidential documents by whistle-blowers, like Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers, as a way to hold the powerful to account.
A letter released on Tuesday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a division of the department, said that JPMorgan had violated provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley law designed to protect whistle-blowers.
Alongside is an old brick barn with a cafe where glassmaker's beer, with its low alcohol level of 3.1 percent, can be bought and enjoyed while watching two glass blowers demonstrate their craft.
Officials at the Office of Special Counsel said that once the office had found evidence of retaliation, its main priority was assisting the whistle-blowers, perhaps by helping them get their jobs back.
Nearby Montclair has had a similar ban in place since 1994, and some landscapers flout it, arguing that it is unevenly enforced, partly because the town uses leaf blowers to maintain public property.
When he hears the blowers roar, he gets into his 1998 Ford Escort wagon, one of his seven cars, and looks for the culprits, suing them in municipal court for violating the ban.
And those gas-powered mowers, edgers and leaf blowers spew millions of tons of pollutants into the air, fine particulate matter that we inhale as we work to keep our lawns looking pretty.
The apparent clampdown stands in contrast to other whistle-blowers who have communicated with media outlets while serving prison sentences, such as former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling.
Letting such people be heard is a bit like letting whistle-blowers be heard: If people on the inside have information that suggests the government is lying, then we need to know about it.
BEATTY: The good news is that the DOJ report&aposs about to come out and the OIG has the ability to protect the whistle blowers within the department of justice and within the FBI.
Over the past decade, in an effort to silence animal-rights activists and other whistle-blowers, eight states have passed "ag-gag" laws making it a crime to film or photograph activities on farms.
On an early scout of the space, he noticed a bottle stuck on a mechanical stacking machine—a sharp change from the fluidity of the glass blowers themselves—and decided to pursue that contrast.
"Legitimate whistle-blowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders, deserve immunity from government retribution," the source, who has still not revealed a name or nationality, said in a statement issued Thursday night.
"If we are to sustain a free society through the next century, we must ensure that whistle-blowers can act again, and safely, as a check on future abuses of power," Mr. Snowden said.
Sunday's meetings focused on the future, not just for Russia but also for the antidoping agency itself, which has faced criticism that it was slow to pursue tips from Russian whistle-blowers for years.
Muckraking journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistle-blowers and other Russians who threaten that image are treated harshly — imprisoned on trumped-up charges, smeared in the news media and, with increasing frequency, killed.
" Even so, according to Ricardo Gutierrez, the general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, the "directive still raises doubts as to whether journalists and, in particular, their sources — whistle-blowers — are appropriately protected.
As a result of human-rights controversies surrounding Russia's hosting of the World Cup this year and Qatar's planned hosting in 2022, FIFA unveiled new rules intended to better protect players and whistle-blowers.
Whistle-blowers emerge as "prickly and doctrinaire"—under ordinary circumstances, stubborn to a fault—but this is what enables them to place conscience above institutional pressures, often at great personal cost, legal protections notwithstanding.
Government agencies have weakened the checks-and-balances function of the Chinese news media, Mr. Hu wrote, citing the example of eight early whistle-blowers who were summoned for talks by the Wuhan police.
"I think that leaf blowers fall into the category of being 'too tidy' and this can be very bad for insects," Edward Turner, a zoology lecturer at the University of Cambridge, told The Independent.
At the same time, whistle-blowers have filed lawsuits against insurers, claiming they overcharged the programs, and government audits have uncovered a widespread problem with private plans overcharging Medicare over a number of years.
I was there even earlier than the '90s when we wrote the whistle-blower laws and continue to write them to ensure the security of our intelligence and the safety of our whistle-blowers.
Stuart J. Baskin, the partner at Shearman & Sterling who headed the investigation, told me that the investigation of whistle-blowers was continuing, and that the firm would report to the board when it finished.
The federal government and many states have gradually added laws that encourage whistle-blowers to report fraud to the government by offering them job protection and rewards as well as confidentiality in some instances.
Beneath Augusta National, the world's most exclusive golf club and most venerated domain of cultivated grass, there is a vast network of pipes and mechanical blowers, which help drain and ventilate the putting greens.
Mr. Barr said he was particularly upset because, under the law, whistle-blowers could second-guess the attorney general, challenging litigation decisions by the government and its efforts to dismiss or settle a case.
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WASHINGTON — Officials in an office in the Department of Veterans Affair formed to protect whistle-blowers repeatedly failed in that mission, and sometimes retaliated against them, a new report by the department's inspector general found.
John S. Pistole, a former administrator of the T.S.A. who created the Office of Professional Responsibility to establish uniform discipline and punishment across the agency, said claims by agency whistle-blowers were disconcerting, if true.
In their Copenhagen proposal, the antidoping officials asked the I.O.C. and Russia to "do everything in their power to protect and ensure safety, security and a sustainable future" for the Stepanovs and other whistle-blowers.
The SEC could impose financial penalties that would pressure the company to close these wildlife marketplaces and also, Kohn hoped, land major monetary awards for whistle-blowers in countries where wildlife trafficking is most widespread.
Established to support whistle-blowers and victims of sexual abuse, the group pressed to open diocesan files on abuse cases, remove bishops who obstructed justice and organize a global conference of survivors and church leaders.
Mr. Mulvaney said he was not seeking to stifle legitimate whistle-blowers, but added that he would "support any disciplinary and other actions taken against any bureau employees" found to have divulged information about investigations.
You could also try to persuade them to put down the leaf blowers, explaining that the devices are noisy, polluting and potentially harmful to the workers who use them and inhale the fine particulate matter.
Those of us who believe in the promise and ideal of honest self-government have an obligation to support a process for whistle-blowers that helps diminish the amount of bravery and self-sacrifice required.
So if his campaign is any guide, Mr. Trump seems likely to enthusiastically embrace the aggressive crackdown on journalists and whistle-blowers that is an important yet little understood component of Mr. Obama's presidential legacy.
The problem, Ms. McCaskill said, is that the Office of Special Counsel often negotiates settlements for whistle-blowers instead of pursuing a full investigation, which allows the agency and the manager to avoid admitting wrongdoing.
"This has the potential to create a toxic work environment in which managers feel free to retaliate against legitimate whistle-blowers knowing the case will be settled and their jobs will be safe," she said.
To purposely feed the wrong animals — sparrows, pigeons, rats, raccoons, foxes — is an act of social transgression and is liable to get you reported to officials by whistle-blowers concerned with mess or health or noise.
Many in his neighborhood felt the same way, so they organized and, last December, convinced the city to join more than 100 other U.S. jurisdictions in banning the blowers in favor of quieter battery-operated machines.
Pence leans so far to the right that he has occasionally echoed A.C.L.U. arguments against government overreach; he has, for instance, supported a federal shield law that would protect journalists from having to identify whistle-blowers.
Günter Younger, WADA's new investigative chief and a former employee of the German criminal police and Interpol, emphasized that his work would be walled off within WADA and called whistle-blowers the backbone of his operations.
Anti-corruption whistle-blowers inside the A.N.C. have been assassinated by hit men hired by party rivals, and members of opposing factions have been killed in fights over positions that give access to lucrative government contracts.
Mr. Imazu, working with whistle-blowers whose names have not been disclosed publicly, helped to prepare an internal report that went first to former prosecutors, according to the two people familiar with the events in question.
Democrats also still see other meaningful avenues for gathering evidence that go around the Trump administration's defiance, including questioning private citizens, former officials, career diplomats near retirement and the whistle-blowers whose revelations fueled the inquiry.
To the Editor: As the lawyer who had the privilege of trying the first successful case under New York's whistle-blower statute, I offer this message to whistle-blowers everywhere: Continue to fight the good fight.
Mr. Schiff and others have also criticized the push to reveal the person's name, saying it puts the person in danger and makes it less likely that other whistle-blowers will come forward in the future.
Hayes Brown: Now what's interesting is that Paul knows that he can't say the whistle blowers name, even if he wanted to, because federal whistleblower laws grant this person anonymity to keep them safe from retribution.
All over the country, corrupt bureaucrats were brought down for crimes from illegal urban demolitions to embezzling state funds that they could no longer sweep under the rug owing to the new army of whistle-blowers.
As noted by Michael McFaul, an ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, this could convince other potential whistle-blowers that the system doesn't work, prompting them to resort to illegal leaking, à la Edward Snowden.
It may not come to a dead halt, but Trump's team of cronies will be distracted; they will be less brazen; they will be worrying about more potential whistle-blowers going public about what they're doing.
Both Kiriakou and Drake stressed that whistle-blowers are rare and that whoever filed the complaint against Trump likely took what they were doing incredibly seriously—including the possibility that they would become a political target.
As family cars have morphed from station wagons to oversize sport-utility vehicles, many garages cannot fit two cars, let alone the other accouterments of suburban living, like beach chairs and bicycles, snow blowers and sleds.
More whistle-blowers are coming forward, which may make him even less likely to quit if he believes that he can best protect himself and his assets by intimidating or neutralizing critics with his security forces.
At a congressional hearing on the Russian doping scandal last month, American lawmakers expressed concern that global sports officials had not done enough to support whistle-blowers and needed to improve their processes for doing so.
WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill, responding to what she has called troubling weaknesses in protections for whistle-blowers, has asked federal agencies to provide information on senior managers who may have retaliated against employees who reported wrongdoing.
Fair Game For those who doubt that whistle-blowers are a force for good in corporate America — and yes, such skeptics exist — a new study out of the University of Iowa could not be more important.
If that all feels eternal, consider what it was like to endure a snowstorm in a time before Gore-Tex and Doppler radar, snow blowers and plow trucks, subway commutes and automobile windshields — actually, before automobiles.
Three key whistle-blowers helped provide those facts: Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia's former longtime chief antidoping chemist, as well as Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian runner and a former employee of the nation's antidoping agency.
And that puts people in positions-- INGRAHAM: This is all getting too much into leads for Jeff but, you are saying there are not whistle blowers because they are afraid they are going to get docked pay?
It would require the city to improve supervision, set new standards and record-keeping for the use of force and the protection for whistle-blowers as well as introducing measures to prevent officers from colluding during investigations.
But that will happen only if the International Olympic Committee backs up the efforts of these whistle-blowers and punishes Russia appropriately, now that the world knows the Russian government was in on the whole doping program.
Some called for executives to aggressively pursue action against those leaking to the media, said two Facebook employees, as well as for the company to do more to screen for potential whistle-blowers during the hiring process.
Some called for executives to aggressively pursue action against those leaking to the media, said two Facebook employees, as well as for the company to do more to screen for potential whistle-blowers during the hiring process.
And so it is nice to be at "Variations on the Main," though it's cutesy and too abstract, and the leaf blowers, which send foil scraps and flower petals winging through the space, are a bit much.
Erica, Katie and their producer, Samantha Stark, spent weeks in Louisiana interviewing young whistle-blowers and their families, and filmed a confrontational exchange with Landry, who denied he had abused his students and lied about their grades.
However, since property owners are allowed to use blowers, you may have a hard time convincing workers to opt for a rake, since "it takes a fraction of the time to blow versus raking," Mr. Birbach said.
Apparently with Pretoria's connivance, they flew to the Seychelles posing as rugby players and members of a beer-drinking club, the Ancient Order of Foam Blowers, carrying equipment bags with false bottoms hiding weapons and walkie-talkies.
But when all of this ends, I hope that the Chinese government will afford its people the right to information transparency, paid for with lives that could have been saved had the whistle-blowers not been suppressed.
In the months ahead, it will be necessary to distinguish between cases where Trump's appointees are merely reframing policy communication, as their predecessors have done, and cases of improper interference with career employees, scientists, and whistle-blowers.
"It's just like bank fraud and mortgage fraud — no one in the big companies ever seems to go to jail," said Patrick Burns, the acting executive director of Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocate for corporate whistle-blowers.
"It is a rancorous story about whistle-blowers, Mr. Giuliani, side channels, quid pro quos, corruption and interference in elections," Taylor said, referring to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was deeply involved in the shadow effort.
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Gag orders Speaking of which, one could hardly discuss the PBMs without mentioning the ugly practice of using gag orders on pharmacies and other potential whistle-blowers to keep their unwitting customers in the dark about ripoff copays.
No longer tied to the nameplate once known best in the United States for its chain saws and snow blowers, Husqvarna's nimble, narrow-waisted single-cylinder machines use engines of 373cc or 693cc from KTM, its corporate parent.
We were honored to represent the whistle-blower, who has smoothly transitioned to new counsel — but we will continue to work, as we have for years, to strengthen the intelligence community whistle-blower system for future whistle-blowers.
Even members of Congress, individuals within the very body that created the statutory protections that exist for whistle-blowers, sought to expose the whistle-blower for political purposes and created harmful doubts concerning the integrity of the system.
As the executive branch controls classified information, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are reliant on inspectors general and whistle-blowers to conduct their constitutionally mandated oversight over federal agencies and even the president of the United States.
High-profile cases in the 1980s and 1990s brought by whistle-blowers against firms like the former Smith Barney shed light on misconduct that forced Wall Street to put in place stricter protocols and enact better inclusion policies.
But there is always a risk with this administration — one that labels the free press as "the enemy of the people" — that the prosecution of Mr. Assange could become an assault on the First Amendment and whistle-blowers.
But its heavy-handed measures are testing the patience of its citizens, many of whom think such a clampdown could have been avoided if officials had not first hid the scale of the outbreak and silenced whistle-blowers.
Hawkins induced the first two batters in the bottom of the eighth to pop out, but rookie third baseman Mike Blowers mishandled Sosa's routine grounder, allowing him to reach on a headfirst slide into the first-base bag.
While the most famous incident involved Kremlin critic Alexander V. Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in London in 2006, the New York Times noted other suspicious deaths abroad have included journalists, whistle-blowers and ex-government officials.
State legislatures should be considering ways they can encourage and reward whistle-blowers to help law enforcement, which will benefit all of their citizens, rather than enacting statutes that allow businesses to hide their criminal practices behind closed doors.
The move follows Maduro's decision requiring cinemas to close early and shopping centers to generate their own electricity and his call for women to ease up on hair blowers in a bid to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent.
The average citizen is likely already caught up by bulk collection, although the proliferation of targeted surveillance technologies are increasingly threatening whistle-blowers, journalists and others that find themselves on the wrong side of unaccountable governments and security agencies.
Mary Inman, who is now a partner at the law firm Constantine Cannon, had spent ten years representing whistle-blowers when her firm flew Darren Sewell to San Francisco to meet with her for the first time, in 22014.
Energy policy specialist David Blowers at the Grattan Institute think-tank told Reuters last week that if the Liberals were to win in South Australia, the federal government could be expected to get the approval it needs to proceed.
" Another said, "Part of your ability to do anything about this is keeping yourself together," and suggested that whistle-blowers find someone "like a minister or a shrink who's confidentiality-protected," because "this could go on for a while.
Ms. Jonsdottir's party is vying to take control of the government on a platform that includes making Iceland "one place in the world where data could be hosted without danger to whistle-blowers" — a haven for data breach journalism.
The pontificate of Francis and the presidency of Donald Trump have been odd mirrors of one another for a while — populist leaders, institutional crises, norm violations, #metoo scandals, leaks and whistle-blowers and cries of "fake news" and more.
When it comes to debating the right path forward, we hope to hear from technologists and policymakers, whistle-blowers and tech executives, advocates and academics, and anyone else who has an original and important solution or idea to contribute.
Only last week, FIFA was forced to issue a statement about its new ethics code; some critics, including its own former governance head, say changes to the code would make it harder to uncover corruption or protect whistle-blowers.
Whatever the outcome of the current impeachment inquiry, it should begin a conversation about how to encourage government whistle-blowers to come forward, just as the aftermath of the Watergate scandal was the impetus for institutional reforms and safeguards.
While most of the hearing covered security lapses, long airport lines, and alleged retaliations against whistle-blowers, several members of the committee, including Representative William Lacy Clay, Democrat of Missouri, raised the issue of racial profiling by T.S.A. personnel.
"During the financial crisis, the government was offering financial institutions great deals to borrow at unbelievable rates," said Joel Androphy, a lawyer at Berg & Androphy and one of the lawyers representing the whistle-blowers in the Wells Fargo case.
Weeks later, a separate agency that investigates whistle-blower complaints issued a report alleging that officials at the base had retaliated against the whistle-blowers after they raised concerns about the way the service members' remains were being handled.
But the House, by law, has important additional powers — the right to be informed of what's going on in the executive branch, such as complaints by whistle-blowers, and the right to issue subpoenas demanding information relevant to governing.
" She noted that the whistle-blowers in The Times report weren't members of the opposition like herself, but rather "top officials in the army," and that "it's the military itself which is saying we are possibly facing false positives.
In a "60 Minutes" exposé on CBS, damaging reports surfaced from company whistle blowers and disgruntled passengers that chronicled aborted takeoffs, emergency landings, and mechanical issues in the last several years at a rate much higher than other standard airlines.
"Whistle-blowers play an essential public service in coming forward with such information, and they should never suffer reprisal or even the threat of reprisal for doing so," wrote the inspectors general, who serve as independent watchdogs for their agencies.
"The inspector general report leaves little doubt that V.A.'s whistle-blower office has failed to do its most important job: protect whistle-blowers," said Representative Mark Takano, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
"You won't see anything like what you see in the tropical countries," said Scott Ritchie, a medical entomologist at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, sitting among booths here displaying insecticide blowers and mosquito bait that uses date juice.
Since the position of inspector general was created in 1978, shortly after Watergate, these investigators have ousted corrupt officials, protected government whistle-blowers, saved taxpayers billions, and kept Congress informed about what goes on behind closed doors in 73 federal agencies.
By the time CBS announced his retirement on May 11, Mr. Safer had broadcast 919 "603 Minutes" reports, profiling international heroes and villains, exposing frauds and corruption, giving voice to whistle-blowers and chronicling the trends of an ever-changing America.
"If even one of those individuals says I want a ton of ivory, and I can put the money up for that, that's a herd of elephants that's going to get killed in Africa," says Jeff, one of the whistle-blowers.
Wiring links the tanks to an electronic interface, through which resistance can be dialed up in minor gradations and, god forbid, down in similar measure (the decrease makes the hissing sound of cabin air escaping a plane's overhead twist-blowers).
The regulator is investigating claims that the insurer used outdated medical definitions to avoid paying claims, pressured doctors into denying claims, deleted medical files and left whistle-blowers exposed, according to the commission's chairman, Greg Medcraft, a former Wall Street banker.
" His contempt for Richard is palpable, but the brunt of his crusader's fury is aimed at law enforcement: "There were credible reports of tampered and destroyed evidence, unethical cash deals, an epidemic of sexual assaults in the jail, whistle-blowers pilloried.
It also undercut Mr. Nunes's claims that his information came from whistle-blowers, and revealed that he was eager to aid the Trump administration when he was conducting what was supposed to be an independent investigation of Russian election meddling.
The new allegations raise the stakes in a showdown between Mr. Ghosn, until recently the head of the vast car-making alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, and the prosecutors, who have been working in tandem with whistle-blowers inside Nissan.
In May, "Bad Blood," the best-selling Theranos exposé by the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, laid out in gripping detail the aggressive efforts by Mr. Boies and his firm to intimidate — and, in some cases, terrify — company whistle-blowers.
The impeachment inquiry needs to remain open after the Ukraine affair, not only to allow the cases in the courts to be resolved, but also to allow future whistle-blowers' information to be immediately considered in the context of impeachment.
Since the beginning of 2016, state and federal regulators and the Justice Department have levied almost $1.5 billion in fines and penalties against the bank for offenses ranging from punishing whistle-blowers to unlawfully repossessing the cars of military service members.
The Times's deputy sports editor, Matt Futterman, who is running the Chicago Marathon himself, wrote about the recent decision and had a longer article that ran this week about the toll it's taken on whistle-blowers, including statements from Salazar.
Whistle-blowers, many long celebrated as truth-tellers, join a list institutions Donald Trump smears, which includes: the intelligence agencies he once accused of using Nazi type tactics, the news media, the foreign service, the military and the Federal Reserve.
"This definitely was the same kind of conduct that Wells was committing, but through Prudential," said one of the three whistle-blowers, Julie Han Broderick, an attorney and former co-head of Prudential's corporate investigations division, which has about 30 employees.
Despite making vague promises of improvements after last year's accident, the air carrier has neither fully acknowledged nor expeditiously addressed the concerns that have been raised about its safety practices, both by government investigators and whistle-blowers interviewed by The Times.
As the company was being revealed as a fraud, he tried to bully whistle-blowers into not speaking to a Wall Street Journal reporter, and he was criticized for possible conflicts of interest when he joined the company's board in 2015.
The details of the sports scandal — deconstructed by Russian whistle-blowers who have provided rare insider insights — offer perhaps the purest case study of Russia's drive to dominate, its brazen methods and, in part, its motivation to influence the American presidency.
Then they expanded their offerings to include such items as handblown glass tumblers (six for $88), produced in a mud-brick workshop belonging to the last in a long line of glass blowers; wooden latticework trays ($425); and kilim rugs ($470).
Knowing that his relentlessness and public candor had hurt him within the Pentagon, Mr. Fitzgerald helped create a safe place for other whistle-blowers — he called them his "closet patriots" — to leak unclassified documents without their identities being made public.
" But in a letter last month to Robert Wilkie, the secretary of veterans affairs, Representative Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona, cited other examples of two employees in the accountability office who had been "ordered to stop doing case work to help whistle-blowers.
The sophistication of Russia's operation, whistle-blowers have said, has made some athletes on steroids appear clean because incriminating urine samples have been swapped out or because athletes imbibed drugs with liquor to minimize the period during which the drugs can be detected.
PETER J. KADZIK Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Washington To the Editor: The revelation that inspectors general have been stymied in doing their jobs comes, unfortunately, as no surprise, given this administration's avidity in pursuing the persecution and prosecution of whistle-blowers.
"It would be great if reporters would pay as much attention to a deleted tweet as they should to Tammy Duckworth being sued by V.A. whistle-blowers for ignoring claims of mistreatment and corruption," the spokeswoman, Andrea Bozek, wrote in an email.
While that law does not lead to paying a cash bounty to successful whistle-blowers, Mr. Wingo declined to say whether he has also filed a claim with the S.E.C. under the Dodd-Frank Act, which does pay awards for successful cases.
Ms. Rakusen, who described her own work as "a space where we are supposed to make people click more," said she hoped that employees of large technology companies would come forward more, looking at whistle-blowers like Mr. Wylie and Edward J. Snowden.
And because of a program that Mr. Thomas helped create at the S.E.C., in which whistle-blowers can receive a cut of penalties the agency imposes as a result of information they provide, the money is starting to pour into Mr. Thomas's firm.
"Instead of trying to erode the rights of federal employees and whistle-blowers, the administration should focus on the abuses of cabinet officials taking charter and first-class flights and buying $31,000 dining sets and $43,000 soundproof booths," Mr. Van Hollen said.
As The Times's Charlie Savage explains, while whistle-blowers are protected from being fired or demoted, they are given only a limited right to anonymity, and Mr. Trump and his allies are not barred from unmasking him if they learn who he is.
Nor was there a lot of press coverage recently when President Trump signed legislation to give the Department of Veterans Affairs authority to make it easier to remove employees who don't follow the rules and also create new protections for whistle blowers.
Even before Friday, state and federal regulators and the Justice Department had levied almost $1.5 billion in penalties against Wells Fargo for offenses that included opening millions of false accounts in customers' names, punishing whistle-blowers and unlawfully repossessing military service members' cars.
"Our hope is that the focus will appropriately shift to the substance and merits of the allegations rather than the individual whistle-blowers, each of whom has a legal right to remain anonymous," said Mark S. Zaid, one of the whistle-blower's lawyers.
"It doesn't matter how many people decide to call themselves whistle-blowers about the same telephone call — a call the president already made public — it doesn't change the fact that he has done nothing wrong," said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.
" Without mentioning Mr. Trump by name, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the most senior Senate Republican and a longtime champion of whistle-blower laws, said the government and the news media "should always work to respect whistle-blowers' requests for confidentiality.
Tackling the questions of national and individual culpability and guilt, Mr. Ophuls interviewed American conscientious objectors and whistle-blowers (like Daniel Ellsberg), French veterans of Algeria and many Germans, from surviving Nuremberg defendants like Albert Speer to college students born after the war.
"At younger ages, loud toys, firecrackers, loud video games, personal stereos or personal music players, lawnmowers or leaf blowers, sporting events or air shows, or other non-music events might be more likely noisy activities than music venue attendance," Le Prell said.
The S.E.C. has awarded $136 million to 37 whistle-blowers since its program's inception in 2011; it says that enforcement actions arising out of these tips have resulted in almost $900 million in financial remedies, much of which went to wronged investors.
Jang had to play 30 holes after resuming her third round at the crack of dawn, and conditions deteriorated in the afternoon as steady rain left parts of the course under water, prompting staff to use leaf blowers to clear puddles from the greens.
Lawyers for the whistle-blower and support organizations for whistle-blowers had roundly criticized the Justice Department ruling, saying it threated to effectively gut protections for government officials trying to report wrongdoing as well as Congress' ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch.
Erika A. Kelton, a lawyer at Phillips and Cohen, a Washington-based firm that represents whistle-blowers but is not representing Mr. Breja, said that although the allegations are cast as a wrongful termination case, they are likely to get the attention of regulators.
"It's clear Google isn't a place where I can continue this work," Whittaker wrote in a farewell note posted on Medium, which urged employees to unionize, protect whistle-blowers, and insist on transparency around the technology they are building and how it will be used.
It must conduct extensive interviews with whistle-blowers like the former Russian laboratory director Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, whose evidence of state-run doping at the Sochi lab led to this new investigation, as well as with national team trainers, coaches, doctors, athletes and laboratory staff.
Now my colleagues Ruiz, Juliet Macur and Ian Austen reported this week that WADA not only sat on detailed tips from Russian whistle-blowers, but also passed along word of one such whistle-blower to the same government officials accused of running the doping program.
A city council spokesperson told Guardian Australia that authorities can't do much about hairy panic "from an enforcement side of things," so for the moment, we can only assume that hairy panic-stricken residents are fending for themselves with hazmat suits and leaf blowers.
Critics have questioned whether sports officials with such dual ties have the political will to unearth doping violations that could tarnish the Olympic brand, and, before Mr. Bach's remarks this week, WADA had faced criticism for taking years to pursue tips from Russian whistle-blowers.
"Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community," Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff, told The Times.
Had adequate incentives and protections for whistle-blowers been in place at the Federal Reserve Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the fraud at Wells Fargo might have been stopped before it spun out of control.
When the Trump Administration's Justice Department began a campaign to crack down on leaks, Assange had so politicized his position that he had lost the authority to speak convincingly on the matter—even though he had in many ways redefined the conversation about whistle-blowers.
The burglary, on March 8, 1971, at the F.B.I. office in an apartment building across from the county courthouse in Media, Pa., prompted a debate over whether the perpetrators were traitors who wantonly exposed official secrets or heroic whistle-blowers who preserved civil liberties.
He now represents, pro bono, more than 18 children and 60 parents in multiple lawsuits against the government, and he recently announced on MSNBC that he is also working with several — he declined to say exactly how many — Immigration and Customs Enforcement whistle-blowers.
Significant measures in the new law say that accusers and whistle-blowers are to be protected from retribution; qualified laypeople can assist church officials in their investigations; and initial investigations of abuse cases must be completed within 90 days, speeding up the current process drastically.
The guidelines are designed to balance the government's need to prosecute and the public's abiding interest in having a news media that can give voice — and protection — to whistle-blowers who want to come forward to shed light on wrongdoing, waste and misbegotten policies.
"Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican- and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community," Intel Committee spokesperson Patrick Boland said in a statement.
The 1998 Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act and Mr. Obama's executive order PPD-19 attempted to carve out a safe space for whistle-blowing in the intelligence community despite the national security exception, but national security whistle-blowers do not currently have full statutory protection.
"I always advise whistle-blowers against going to general counsels because the general counsels have to report the matter," said Dan Meyer, the former executive director of the intelligence community whistle-blowing program and managing partner at the law firm Tully Rinckey's Washington office.
"Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community," said Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Mr. Schiff.
In response to questions, spokeswomen for Senators Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Mark Warner of Virginia, its Democratic vice chairman, said it was standard procedure to refer whistle-blowers to the relevant inspectors general.
Response: "It doesn't matter how many people decide to call themselves whistle-blowers about the same telephone call — a call the president already made public — it doesn't change the fact that he has done nothing wrong," said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.
Presumably, supervisors could, as part of the work they do looking over bank balance sheets and internal controls, also look to see if there is a culture of open communication and a willingness to tolerate employees who escalate issues — internal whistle-blowers, if you like.
On its website, the Energy Department notes that it is illegal to retaliate against whistle-blowers, who are typically protected when they alert a supervisor or the inspector general to information that they reasonably believe to constitute an abuse of authority, or other misconduct.
Mr. Snyder has said that he was first briefed "on the potential scope and magnitude of the crisis" in late September 2015 — long after his advisers were voicing concerns to one another and while whistle blowers were warning of high levels of lead in children's blood.
He returned to prominence in the Seychelles, leading a coup attempt in 1981 that ended in fiasco when the weapons he and his fellow mercenaries - who were posing as a drinking club called Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers - had flown in were discovered at the airport.
Democrats in Congress have already asked the current inspectors general to look into the president's threats against whistle-blowers, as well as his overseas business holdings and the government lease he was granted to turn the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue into Trump International Hotel.
But accusations from the World Anti-Doping Agency, underpinned by testimony from at least three whistle blowers, that the Russian government and the FSB security service have been systematically covering up the positive doping results of Russian athletes for years, including at Sochi, taint all that.
Even though his is the second-largest award issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission under its five-year-old program to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward (after a $30 million award in September 2014), it feels, he told me, like something of a hollow victory.
The global regulator of doping in sports, responding to questions about why it did not respond more aggressively to whistle-blowers' accusations of a government-run doping program in Russia, has told United States lawmakers that it did not have the authority to investigate such claims.
And if the White House's massive list of proposed tariffs on 1,300 Chinese products goes into effect, it could raise prices — in some cases by hundreds of dollars — for ... Flat-screen TVs, printers, copiers, dishwashers, plows, snow blowers, fire extinguishers, golf carts, medical devices and more.
"This decision and the lack of a firm, clear decision by the I.O.C. was a blow to the effort of clean athletes, and it sends a message that we don't want whistle-blowers," Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said Sunday.
"To see something like that is really tough because you know those people you see those people everyone day the firefighters the police officers EMTs all those first responders and to have the work that they do be treated that way is sort of unfortunate," Blowers said.
The onslaught has included congressional hearings, federal investigations, calls for the criminal prosecution of Boeing executives, revelations by whistle-blowers, attacks in the news media, the exploitation of personal tragedy and the construction of a whole new economic sector built around perceptions of the company's liability.
The judges will save us, the Senate will save us, the generals will save us, whistle-blowers from the F.B.I. will save us, the I.R.S. will deliver Trump's tax returns to the Republic like Moses presenting the stone tablets of the Law to the Jewish people.
But after whistle-blowers and opponents of Mr. Putin in recent years began dying from exotic poisons, including radioactive poloniumand a rare Himalayan plant toxin, critics of the Russian government and independent researchers have asserted that the post-Soviet government has turned again to its poison arsenal.
Any doubts you might have had about his authoritarian instincts should have been put to rest by his reaction to the possibility of impeachment: implicit death threats against whistle-blowers, warnings of civil war and claims that members of Congress investigating him are guilty of treason.
As an incentive for raising concerns in the way the government prefers, the law provides safeguards to whistle-blowers who obey the rules, like shielding them from losing their security clearances or otherwise being punished in retaliation, like being passed over for promotion, transferred, demoted or fired.
In December 1972, the commission found that corruption — from accepting gratuities to extorting drug dealers — was widespread in the police force, but that the department's top officials had done little about the problem after being alerted to it by the whistle-blowers and The Times's reporting.
" Irresistibles that were news to me include the Dixieland Jug Blowers' "Banjoreno," Whistler's Jug Band's "Foldin' Bed," Burnett and Rutherford's "Ladies on the Steamboat," the Massey Family's "Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane)," Lydia Mendoza's "Mal Hombre," Lane Hardin's "Hard Times," and Truett and George's "Ghost Dance.
Some experts also cautioned against reading too much into Nissan's problems and losing sight of positive changes that have taken place in broader Japanese corporate governance in recent years, such as greater power for whistle-blowers — a key element of the Nissan case — and a new ombudsman clause.
The SEC wants Tesla to explain Elon's 420 tweet It's been a long, hot summer for Tesla's operations, and Musk has only exacerbated problems for the company with his very public complaints about short sellers, whistle-blowers, reporters, analysts and others who have openly questioned the company's viability.
And the same intelligence agencies who tracked down al-Baghdadi are the same ones who produced two whistle-blowers high up in your White House — who complained that you, Mr. Trump, abused the power of your office to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, touching off this impeachment inquiry.
After the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a study last summer showing that climate change has continued unabated and perhaps accelerated over the last 15 years, Mr. Smith subpoenaed the emails of the agency's scientists, citing whistle-blowers who say that the study had been rushed to publication.
Internal whistle-blowers account for nearly half of those receiving awards, and the S.E.C.'s most recent annual report to Congress on the program notes that 80 percent of them either reported their concerns to management or said that the corporate compliance office was aware of the issue.
As a result, arbitrations are taking place across the country in which whistle-blowers fired for opposing corporate wrongdoing, including health-endangering actions, are forced to litigate in secrecy, and victims of sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination likewise must present evidence of corporate misconduct behind closed doors.
Whether the case goes forward or not, the evidence Kohn and his whistle-blowers have collected on Facebook—every sawed off elephant tusk, every tiger skin laying flat on someone's living room floor—serves as yet another visceral reminder of the unintended consequences of all of that freedom.
WASHINGTON — A senior administrator at the Department of Housing and Urban Development accused department officials on Tuesday of conducting a "witch hunt" against whistle-blowers and demanded that Ben Carson, the HUD secretary, acknowledge that his wife had pressured officials to approve an expensive renovation of his office.
In February, Andrew Wilkie, an independent Australian politician, published leaked documents from two whistle-blowers at Australian Leisure and Hospitality showing that the company had been secretly collecting data on frequent gamblers, including their favorite sporting teams, their relationship statuses and when they had the most money to spend.
The assassination — the most high-profile in a wave of political killings that have swept across South Africa since early 2016 — came to symbolize the decline of the A.N.C., whose members have increasingly targeted anticorruption whistle-blowers and turned on one another in lethal fights over political posts.
"The administration is inviting companies in the health care industry to write a 'get out of jail free card' for themselves, which they can use if they are investigated or prosecuted," said James J. Pepper, a lawyer outside Philadelphia who has represented many whistle-blowers in the industry.
" What disturbed Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who wrote "Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise With Corporations," is that "to have a systemic pattern of misconduct on this scale, you needed to make sure that potential whistle-blowers kept quiet.
Whistle-blowers approved by Fair Sport's board of directors — which includes a venture capitalist, a former United States federal prosecutor and a four-time Olympic speedskating gold medalist from Norway — will be eligible for assistance with a range of services, including housing, criminal defense, immigration applications and psychological counseling.
Silencing dissent and basic scientific data and research, all in the name politics, is behavior fit for a dictatorship, not a democracy, and Congress should act immediately to protect research and data, as well as whistle-blowers who are sounding the alarm on Trump's censorship, before it's too late.
Other victims of sexual violence were afraid to speak out because whistle-blowers in the past had been vilified and ostracized in their profession, which is ruled by a rigid, hierarchical relationship between coaches and athletes, said the group's leader, Yeo Jun-hyung, a former national team coach.
The setting is an original fantasy world that makes references to works beyond genre fiction - apart from Swan Lake, the Weavers echo how the Fates of Greek Mythology wove people's destinies, and the green city of the Glass Blowers is reminiscent of Wizard of Oz, to name but a few.
" Jodie Ginsberg of the UK's Index on Censorship told The Telegraph: "The proposed changes are frightening and have no place in a democracy [...] It is unthinkable that whistle blowers and those to whom they reveal their information should face jail for leaking and receiving information that is in the public interest.
" Betsy Reed, editor in chief of The Intercept, said in a statement on Tuesday that the organization would not discuss its anonymous sources, but that the Justice Department's "use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistle-blowers seeking to shed light on matters of vital public concern is an outrage.
" Last November, Britain passed a new Investigatory Powers Act with "intrusive powers (that) are bound to have a detrimental impact on the legitimate activities carried out by civil society and political activists, whistle-blowers, organizers and participants of peaceful protests, and many other individuals seeking to exercise their fundamental freedoms.
Representative Lee M. Zeldin, a Republican who represents the First District on Long Island and is a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, then collected information from whistle-blowers and others and turned it over to the committee, which will hold a public hearing at the medical center on Tuesday.
Which is a fair critique — except that the pope himself is the one driving the church to that point, by treating traditional piety as a roadblock to his efforts, by demonizing whistle-blowers in an age of awful scandal, and generally behaving less like a pastor than an ideologue in white.
The company was accused by several whistle-blowers, including the former chief operating officer, of using bribes to win lucrative contracts from government officials affiliated with the A.N.C. And to keep the money flowing, it made sure the A.N.C. remained in power, in part by paying for a campaign war room.
The state investigation — and a 2016 civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of three residents of the Bronx facility against state officials and staff members — reinforced that well-meaning employees have long faced intimidation at an agency with a history of thwarting and even violating the confidentiality of whistle-blowers.
It's another thing to do it from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where you have control over what vital government information is made public, and where you have sway over the Justice Department, which under President Obama has shown an overexuberance in investigating journalists and the whistle-blowers who leak to them.
But so far, women are afraid to go public on those names for fear of losing their jobs or of being seen as whistle blowers, Gallop added, and she called for them to instead be seen as heroes and for agencies to publicly state that they would continue to hire such women.
"Any whistle-blowers who may have been fired, and maybe have a gag order pursuant to a settlement—who have complained about safety issues with regard to the 22018 MAX —should be called to testify, with protective subpoenas, so the public can hear what they have to say," he told the subcommittee.
Nearly every day in normal times, an antidoping official may be crossing borders, seeking a world-class athlete to submit a sample, while other officials are gathering intelligence, meeting with whistle blowers or working in labs to try to find testing techniques that will put them one step ahead of the cheaters.
The volume of lawsuits against tobacco companies prompted the release of documents — from the discovery process during suits as well as disclosures from corporate whistle-blowers — that showed the companies had known far more than they had publicly acknowledged about the harmful effects of their products and the addictive nature of nicotine.
After hearing about the July call, the intelligence officer agreed that Mr. Trump might be "seeking to pressure that leader to take an action to help the president's 2020 re-election campaign," Mr. Engel wrote, and decided to tell Congress about it, using a process that protects intelligence whistle-blowers from reprisal.
Alas, Mr. Trump has shown a preference for friendly partisans in oversight jobs, most recently his choice of Henry Kerner to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a small agency charged with protecting federal government whistle-blowers and enforcing the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in political activity.
Ms. Roberts interviews a few who left their mark on 2016 — among them, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway blockbuster "Hamilton"; Michael Phelps, the swimmer who earned his 23rd gold medal at the Rio Olympics; the wave-making Chance the Rapper; Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a whistle-blowers in the Flint, Mich.
PROTECTION FOR WHISTLE-BLOWERS Legal experts also say a mark of commitment to fight corporate corruption will be to enact an overarching legislation to protect whistleblowers, who are afforded anonymity under the PCA but which can be revoked if the courts believe justice cannot be served without revealing the identity of the informer.
That could include, but not be limited to, imposing penalties for exposing or intimidating lawful whistle-blowers and their attorneys, broadening the definition of whistle-blower retaliation beyond employment-related actions and creating a more direct path for intelligence community employees to report wrongdoing to Congress involving White House officials and even the president.
In the past, insiders who perceived their secrets to have these sorts of stakes, whether straight-arrow administration officials like John Dean or canny bureaucratic operators like Mark Felt or rogue whistle-blowers like Daniel Ellsberg or Edward Snowden, did not couch them (at least not at first) in bids for the best-seller lists.
Jesselyn Radack, a lawyer for national-security whistle-blowers who has worked with Aaron, told me that several former drone operators she represents have suffered retaliation for talking about their experiences (she said one client had his house raided by the F.B.I. and was placed under criminal investigation after speaking on camera to a filmmaker).
Fresh woes for Wells Fargo and a victory for two of its whistle-blowers occurred late Tuesday when the Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit brought against the bank by two former employees, who were fired after they tried to report misdeeds they had observed to their supervisors.
Citing the more than $25 million the United States contributed in the last 14 years, Mr. Thune criticized the agency for letting at least four years pass before pursuing tips from Russian whistle-blowers, and for containing its ultimate investigation to Russian track and field in spite of claims that cheating transcended sports and implicated other countries.
Clinton is that should she win, her administration would continue the tradition of being still more secretive than the one before it; the Obama White House has achieved just that with its abysmal record on fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests and its record of prosecuting whistle-blowers who have shared national security information with the press. Mrs.
Huawei says its fans move 25 percent more air than the blowers on a typical laptop, which should be a big help for anyone who upgrades to the MateBook 22000's optional $213,213 config which features a Core i29.6-210U CPU, 213GB of RAM, 133GB of SSD storage, and an Nvidia MX213 GPU with 213GB of VRAM.
Editorial The timing is troubling, if coincidental: Last Thursday, just 11 days after a trove of leaked documents now known as the Panama Papers reaffirmed the essential role of journalists and whistle-blowers in revealing illegal or unethical business practices, the European Parliament approved rules to protect corporate trade secrets that could put a chill on such efforts.
The President of the United States and his administration are accused of routinely hiding what should be publicly available information for political purposes, and somehow, we've already skipped over that part to the bit where the president is talking about killing spies who leak information and a newspaper is making it easier for those whistle-blowers to be found?
"They took risks with not only their lives but also financially, and it became clear there was really no support for whistle-blowers," said Bryan Fogel, a filmmaker who financed Dr. Rodchenkov's move to Los Angeles in late 2015 and produced a documentary about the Russian doping scandal, "Icarus," which was acquired by Netflix this year.
The ability of British citizens to avail themselves of American whistle-blower laws "is a great example of how the global economy opens up opportunities for whistle-blowers from around the world to point out fraud against the U.S. government," said Mary Inman, who arrived in London in July to start Constantine Cannon's whistle-blower practice in Europe.
The report said the office's first executive director, Peter O'Rourke, a former Trump campaign staff member who at one point served as acting secretary of veterans affairs, and his successor, Kirk Nicholas, engaged "in misdeeds and missteps that appeared unsupportive of whistle-blowers while also failing to meet many of the other important objectives of the act" that established the office.
But the work of investigative journalists and whistle-blowers around the world, from David Cay Johnston at the New York Times, to Nick Shaxson (the author of Treasure Islands), to Richard Brooks at Private Eye, and the whole team at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and their partners, as well as many others, have changed how the public views the offshore world.
Read more: Another whistleblower has come forward, this time alleging 'inappropriate efforts' to influence Trump's tax audit"Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community," Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff, told The Times.
In a statement, the antidoping officials offered to meet with WADA and Olympic executives to walk through their latest recommendations, calling on officials to strengthen the protection of whistle-blowers, to ensure that "corrupt sport systems are excluded from international competition" and to exercise whatever influence possible to halt the publication of global athletes' confidential medical records by a Russian cyberespionage group.
Granite-colored clouds largely gave way to blue skies on Monday, and zipping winds and clacking rains were replaced by a different soundtrack: the helicopters that roared and hovered above Wilmington; leaf-blowers and chain saws that cleaned up Charlotte; and the soft swirl of the still-rising Cape Fear River that menaced Fayetteville as it flowed under the Person Street Bridge.

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