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		<title>A Modern Whodunit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in December, a bill to protect whistle blowing federal employees was expected to pass. Instead, it disappeared. ]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/modern-whodunit/</link>
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		<title>IRS Proposes New Whistleblower Reward Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service announced today new rules that will alter the Whistleblower Rewards Programshould it be taken into effect.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the author of the 2006 law, modeled the Whistleblower Rewards Program after the successful False Claims Act. In June, Grassley expressed his concern with the limitations of the 2006 law, which this new proposal intends to correct.]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/irs-proposes-whistleblower-reward-plan/</link>
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		<title>Senator Grassley: Again to the Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, there is a bad taste in the mouth over FDA’s appetite for whistleblowing. In posh sections of Virginia Beach, one might not have known that the FDA’s top criminal investigator was allegedly conducting high profile criminal investigations.]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/fda-criminal-investigator-sufers-form-foot-mouth-alleged-tampering-senator-grassley-rescue-knight-thousand-knaves/</link>
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		<title>Qui Tam and Big Oil, All Over Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to classic whistleblower cases, oil always comes to the surface.

The recurring saga, alleged mismanagement, and waste, of the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) revealed the recurring nature of oil oversight: and the frustrating, often ignored, role of whistle blowers.
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		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/qui-tam-big-oil/</link>
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		<title>Whistleblower Actions: Citizens Motivated By Doing Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, whistleblower rewards were significantly increased, and the Whistleblower Office created, when President Bush signed into law the Tax Relief and Health Care Law.]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/whistleblower-actions-citizens-motivated/</link>
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		<title>TARP fraud uncovered: Bank CEO pleads guilty in New York City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The  ironies of TARP — the Troubled Assets Relief Program---may take decades to be understood. In the same manner of most great American financial crises, from the days of railroad bribery and trust-busting to world war munitions graft... claims of rights and wrongs are usually obscure. The October 2010 conviction of a white collar TARP criminal, however, suggest the days of reckoning for TARP may not be as long in coming as is historically usual.]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/tarp-fraud-uncovered-bank-ceo-pleads-guilty-york-city/</link>
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		<title>Independent Watchdogs on OSHA Whistleblowers: A Broken Reflection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government auditors are blowing the whistle on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the leading investigative branch for workplace safety in the Department of Labor (DOL).]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/independent-watchdogs-osha-whistleblowers-broken-reflection/</link>
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		<title>Whistleblowing Across the Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As one of our writers recently crossed the Atlantic to find out more about governance in Europe, she coincidentally came across this poster. Occupying ad space in numerous places on one of London’s major streets, the poster promotes blowing the whistle on housing fraud. While blowing the whistle on housing fraud is not our only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/whistleblowing-pond/</link>
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		<title>Shouldn&#8217;t We All Be Equally Protected?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Congress is supposed to make laws to protect people, and if all people are created equal, shouldn’t members of Congress and their employees abide by the same laws as others?  Shouldn’t Congressional employees be protected by Congressional legislation as well?  The logical answer to these questions would be “yes.”  However, in some cases, Congress has made laws for others to abide by, but has not applied the law to its own branch of government.  
Strangely enough, while Congress passed laws to protect whistleblowers, it has not extended the same protections to its own employees. ]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/equally-protected/</link>
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		<title>How Fraud Can Follow You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Why would this entry characterize Grasso of the NYSE, Hurd of HP, and new-to-the-political scene Scott, as similar to one another?” The key: the past will always be questioned in the future, and fraud will follow you in future endeavors.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/fraud-follow/</link>
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