<story><title>SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-44</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bharris62</author><text>you cannot be fired for being a whistleblower, so if you &amp;#x27;all the sudden&amp;#x27; had performance problems and got fired shortly after whistleblowing, i imagine courts would side with you.</text></item><item><author>s73v3r_</author><text>Considering many of these people end up blacklisted from their industry, we as a society kind of owe it to them.</text></item><item><author>gadders</author><text>Bradley Birkenfeld did quite well whistleblowing on UBS [1]. $104m.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblowing_and_arrest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblow...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>Whistleblowing can be it&amp;#x27;s own business model, just do a google search for Ven-a-care.&lt;p&gt;Ven-a-care is a small pharmacy down in the Florida Keys.  A few decades ago, it started to notice that the price it was paying for certain drug was &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; different from what the gov&amp;#x27;t thought they cost.  Gov&amp;#x27;t price reporting is incredibly strict in pharma due to past mucking with the numbers.&lt;p&gt;So they started a lawsuit which was picked up by the DOJ.&lt;p&gt;Then they did it again, and again, and again.&lt;p&gt;Last I saw, they&amp;#x27;ve racked up almost $600M in whistleblower awards.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;41491563&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;41491563&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s73v3r_</author><text>There are lots of things that you&amp;#x27;re not supposed to be fired for, that people get fired for. Unfortunately, the onus is on the employee, with almost no resources, to prove that the company was lying.</text></comment>
<story><title>SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-44</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bharris62</author><text>you cannot be fired for being a whistleblower, so if you &amp;#x27;all the sudden&amp;#x27; had performance problems and got fired shortly after whistleblowing, i imagine courts would side with you.</text></item><item><author>s73v3r_</author><text>Considering many of these people end up blacklisted from their industry, we as a society kind of owe it to them.</text></item><item><author>gadders</author><text>Bradley Birkenfeld did quite well whistleblowing on UBS [1]. $104m.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblowing_and_arrest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblow...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>Whistleblowing can be it&amp;#x27;s own business model, just do a google search for Ven-a-care.&lt;p&gt;Ven-a-care is a small pharmacy down in the Florida Keys.  A few decades ago, it started to notice that the price it was paying for certain drug was &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; different from what the gov&amp;#x27;t thought they cost.  Gov&amp;#x27;t price reporting is incredibly strict in pharma due to past mucking with the numbers.&lt;p&gt;So they started a lawsuit which was picked up by the DOJ.&lt;p&gt;Then they did it again, and again, and again.&lt;p&gt;Last I saw, they&amp;#x27;ve racked up almost $600M in whistleblower awards.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;41491563&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;41491563&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadash</author><text>Sure, you can&amp;#x27;t be fired easily. But what about when it comes time for a raise or promotion? What about when you are interviewing for your next role? It&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine anyone getting punished for discriminating in these cases, since it&amp;#x27;s always easy to pin it on other things.</text></comment>