September 01, 2017
“Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Requiring the IRS to Properly Attribute Its Recoveries to Whistleblowers”
In an article for Bloomberg BNA’s Tax Management Memorandum, Phillips & Cohen attorney Edward Arens stressed the importance of recognizing the valuable contributions of whistleblowers to the...
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June 21, 2017
“Sepp Blatter is wrong. Whistleblowers are courageous and deserve our support”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton’s letter to the editor was published in The Guardian on 6/21/17. The letter responds to anti-whistleblower comments made by Sepp Blatter, the former...
June 15, 2017
“Top 10 takeaways from the eClinicalWorks settlement”
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette Matzzie writes in HIStalk about the key takeaways from Phillips & Cohen’s ground-breaking whistleblower lawsuit against electronic health records vendor eClinicalWorks,...
May 15, 2017
“More apologies are due from Barclays’ Staley”
Letter to the Editor by Erika A. Kelton in the Financial Times, 3/13/17. “Much has been made about Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s apology to shareholders for the witch hunt he undertook...
May 05, 2017
“IRS should use whistleblowers, not collection agencies, to close the tax gap”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton wrote an op-ed in The Hill looking at why the IRS’s decision to once again hire private debt collectors to go after small overdue tax bills is misguided....
March 06, 2017
“Australia needs incentives for whistleblowers”
Letter to the Editor by Sean McKessy in the Australian Financial Review, 3/6/2017 “Critics of a legislative proposal to reward whistleblowers as a way to encourage them to come forward are totally...
January 05, 2017
“Four Important Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program Developments to Watch for in 2017.”
Article by Erika Kelton published in the NYU Compliance & Enforcement Blog, 01/05/17. “2016 was a banner year for the Dodd-Frank Act’s most significant anti-fraud enforcement provisions: the...
December 03, 2016
“Help More Whistle-Blowers.”
Letter to the Editor by Erika Kelton published in The New York Times, 12/3/16. “Gretchen Morgenson’s column “A Win for a Whistle-Blower” (Fair Game, Nov. 27) captures the retaliation that employees...
July 25, 2016
“LuxLeaks highlights need for whistleblower protection and incentives.”
Article by Erika Kelton published in EurActiv, 7/25/16. “LuxLeaks whistleblower Antoine Deltour received the European Citizen Award in 2015 for his role in exposing how hundreds of corporations...
March 30, 2016
“Opinion: Quebec’s AMF should offer rewards to whistleblowers.”
Article by Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Montreal Gazette 3/30/16. “Both the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) looked at the same evidence...