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SEC Sanctions JP Morgan $18 Million for Impeding Whistleblowing

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Morgan Securities LLC in which the company agreed to pay $18 million to settle charges that it impeded the ability of advisory clients and brokerage customers to blow the whistle to the SEC. In recent months, the SEC has stepped up its enforcement of the rule. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.

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

Whistleblower Network News

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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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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OpenAI Whistleblowers File Complaint with SEC on Illegal NDAs

Whistleblower Network News

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company is silencing employees from sharing concerns with the public and federal employees about its AI technology through its employment contracts. Read a fact sheet from Kohn, Kohn, and Colapinto LLP on the rules and regulations governing these contracts.

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Government shutdown puts contractors in precarious position

Federal News Network

There’s never a convenient time for a full or even a partial government shutdown, but we’ve reached the beginning of the end of another fiscal year with the likelihood of a shutdown rising. What are you hearing mostly from the folks who are on the government contracting side? Eric White Yeah.