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whistleblower

[wis-uhl-bloh-er, hwis-] / ˈwɪs əlˌbloʊ ər, ˈʰwɪs- /


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Under the whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act, Tim Booher, a former vice president at Lockheed, will receive $4.4 million from the settlement, the department said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

On Tuesday, Trump and Vance announced a $25-million whistleblower program designed to pay out cash to people who tip off the federal government about fraudsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Writer and director Aaron Sorkin chose to focus on a Facebook whistleblower and a Wall Street Journal reporter instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

But in Andriesz's view that amounted to little more than a regulatory "slap on the wrist" and made it harder to make a claim for whistleblower retaliation against BGC at tribunal.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, warned Monday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026


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