Autonomy, a British software company acquired by Hewlett Packard last year, has been accused of improper accounting procedures by a whistleblower. Whistleblowers in the United States are entitled to a financial reward, courtesy of a new program run by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.  The whistleblowers could receive an award of between 10 and 30 percent of the sanctions collected by the SEC and other U.S. regulators. The allegations amount to over $8 billion dollars which could mean a very …

Identity theft and credit card fraud are running rampant throughout America. Millions of dollars are stolen every year by criminals, who appropriate credit card information and make fraudulent purchases over the telephone. Many of these scam artists reside in foreign continents such as South America and Africa. How, with all of America’s technological advances, do these criminals continue to get away with this?

Large telecommunication companies, such as AT&T, allegedly have the ability to track where these scam artists operate. But …

Rapiscan, a company that produces security scanners, has been suspected of falsifying software tests. The company has a contract worth 90 million dollars with the Department of Homeland Security to replace traditional magnetometers with the highly controversial body-scanning machines.

The machines were designed to screen passengers at airports and aid Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents with detecting bombs and weapons. Rapiscan has been accused of manipulating data in privacy tests conducted after several complaints were made by privacy advocates …

A physician in Michigan, Dr. Jonathan Agbebiyi, was sent to federal prison and ordered by a federal judge to repay the government $3,000,000.00 for scamming taxpayers out of millions of Medicare dollars. Dr. Agbebiyi gave rewards such as cash, prescription medication and other gifts to recruit patients for unnecessary neurological exams. Specifically, he recommended nerve conduction studies using electrical stimulation to patients who did not need them. Not only were the neurological tests needless, they were administered by …

In 2011, a certified public accountant tipped off the Internal Revenue Service about a tax lapse his company ignored, and received the first major award granted to a whistleblower by the tax collection bureau. Out of the $20 million in taxes and interest the IRS netted from the delinquent company, the whistleblower received $4.5 million – a 22 percent cut of the taxes recovered. This groundbreaking award came four years, three months, and 18 days after Congress augmented an 1867 …