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1 day ago | 
natlawreview.com | Randy J. Pummill |David Cabrales |Geoff Schweller |Kathryn Rattigan
After writing over 500 privacy tips in my career, it gets a little difficult to find new content to keep the tips relevant and timely. I came across a recent post by the CyberGuy, Kurt Knutsson, that I thought our readers would get some insightful tips from, including up to date ideas on how and why to keep your identifiable information from AI tools like ChatGPT.
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1 day ago | 
natlawreview.com | Geoff Schweller |Kathryn Rattigan |Jim Merrifield |Roma Patel
On June 22, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) into law. Despite the ongoing debate in the U.S. Senate over the provision in the reconciliation bill that declares a moratorium on the ability of states to legislate artificial intelligence (AI), the signing of HB 149 is a declaration that states will continue to legislate when it comes to consumer protection and the AI use unless such is preempted by a final passed reconciliation bill.
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natlawreview.com | Geoff Schweller
On June 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in Island Industries v. Sigma Corporation, a False Claims Act case involving whistleblower allegations of customs duty evasion. The ruling, in favor of the whistleblower, bolsters the ability of whistleblowers to use the False Claims Act to hold companies accountable for committing customs and tariff fraud.
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2 days ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On June 24, attorneys for former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Erez Reuveni sent Reuveni’s formal whistleblower disclosure to the DOJ Inspector General, the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
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3 days ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On June 24, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Washington announced that federal contractor Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC (WRPS) agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle whistleblower allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by fraudulently overcharging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for millions of dollars in labor hours at the Hanford Nuclear Site’s “Tank Farms.”The case stems from a qui tam whistleblower suit filed by a WRPS employee.
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3 days ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On June 24, two whistleblower law firms, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav, working together at the Tax Whistleblower Attorney Group (TWAG), announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had issued a $20 million whistleblower award to clients of the firm. “Today is good news for all honest taxpayers,” stated Stephen M. Kohn, founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto.
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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On June 11, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia announced that Creative Hospice Care, Inc., and affiliated companies paid $9.2 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the entities violated the False Claims Act by entering into kickback arrangements with medical directors in exchange for referrals of hospice patients to Creative Hospice. The allegations were brought forward in three separate qui tam whistleblower lawsuits.
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whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On July 30, whistleblowers, whistleblower advocates, and government officials will gather on Capitol Hill for the National Whistleblower Center’s annual National Whistleblower Day celebration. Among the speakers will be Cynthia Lie, the Acting Director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Whistleblower Office. In that role, Lie oversees the CFTC Whistleblower Program, which offers monetary awards and anti-retaliation protections to whistleblowers reporting commodities fraud.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On June 13, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee urging for the provisions of the bipartisan IRS Whistleblower Improvement Act to be included in the budget reconciliation bill being debated in the Senate. Since 2006, the IRS Whistleblower Program has become an integral part of the IRS’s enforcement efforts by incentivizing insiders to come forward and disclose hard-to-detect misconduct.
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2 weeks ago | 
natlawreview.com | Marla N. Presley |Geoff Schweller |A.J. Dhaliwal
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