But since the failure rate of these cases is so high — 80 percent are not pursued by the Justice Department program — whistle-blowers want confidentiality.
WASHINGTON — When insider-trading scandals plagued the financial markets in the late 1980s, lawmakers created a bounty program for whistle-blowers, allowing regulators to reward tipsters who uncovered evidence of manipulation.
He's involved with a straying woman (as he was in "I Wish") in "It Is What It Is," wrestling with temptation over a choppy programmed beat, whistling synthesizers and an uncomforting plucked harp.
A number of measures have been implemented to increase awareness such as fencing, feeding programs, automobile whistles.
Consumers should not have to wait until somebody in the school lunch program blows the whistle.
Yet under the new program, blowing the whistle could end up being worth quite a penny – for both the whistleblower and the authorities.
Rick Piltz from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, blew the whistle on a White House official who ignored majority scientific opinion to edit a climate change report ("Our Changing Planet") to reflect the Bush administration's view that the problem was unlikely to exist".
DealBook » Second Thoughts About the S.E.C.'s Whistle-Blower Program | The Securities and Exchange Commission's whistle-blower program sounds great, in theory, but there are several ways its success may harm the agency, writes David Zaring, assistant professor of legal studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Under Mr. Cahn's watch, the S.E.C. developed a program to reward whistle-blowers who provided useful information.
Antitrust experts say a leniency program to encourage whistle-blowers would do even more to help Japan break up cartels.
The chamber's concerns centered on the most controversial aspect of the program, which allows whistle-blowers to expose fraud without first sounding the alarms at their company.
