Protecting Whistleblowers

摘要

Just a year ago, it would have been a highly unlikely scenario: a group of OSHA's whistleblower investigators from offices around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., to learn about corporate fraud. As they listened to attorneys from the Securities and Exchange Commission talk about the new Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002―also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act―investigators had a lot of questions. Among them was Dennis Russell from OSHA's Atlanta Regional Office, which had already received three new cases involving whistleblowers covered by the new act.