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Whistleblower who Established Hostile Work Protections for Federal Employees Sues to Enforce Settlement

Whistleblower Network News

Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. All her allegations of contract fraud were confirmed by the auditing department.

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GSA contracting officers are driving schedule holders crazy

Federal News Network

They say contracting officers are trying to re-negotiate finished contracts and making unreasonable demands for information. What are contracting officers actually doing, that the contractors are complaining about? Six months (or) a year later, a company comes in and asks for a contract modification. Larry Allen Right.

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MSPB Orders Army Corps of Engineers to Offer “Sincere Thanks” to Whistleblower

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Dr. Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. All her allegations of contract fraud were confirmed by the auditing department.

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Government shutdown puts contractors in precarious position

Federal News Network

What are you hearing mostly from the folks who are on the government contracting side? But in the meantime, they have to make sure that they have their in-place contracts managed properly for a potential shutdown. What are they preparing for — the worst, or just this is business as usual now?

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Three Black Women Whistleblowers That Broke Silence and Caused Sweeping Reforms

Whistleblower Network News

Tommie (“Toni”) Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for nearly a decade and a half since she began to experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on systemic contracting fraud within the Army Corps of Engineers. The auditing department confirmed all her allegations of contract fraud.

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Jonathan Taylor

Whistleblower Network News

While serving as an in-house lawyer at SBM Offshore, a Monaco-based Dutch oil and gas services company, Taylor blew the whistle on a corruption scheme where the company offered bribes in order to obtain lucrative government contracts. His whistleblowing helped bring light to the massive Petrobras scandal.

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Data Shows International Focus of FCPA Enforcement

Whistleblower Network News

Bribery and corruption lead to distorted prices, increase the cost of doing business, and inflate the cost of government contracts. businesses from these effects of international misconduct, especially regarding contract bribery. Enforcement of the FCPA has protected U.S.

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