Whistleblower Protections Are Here to Stay
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.29.16
President Obama has signed Public Law 114-261, which makes permanent the current whistleblower protection pilot program and standardizes its protections across agencies. In this blog post, Crowell & Moring lawyers David Robbins and Christine Hawes revisit best practices and current developments in defending whistleblower reprisal investigations run by Offices of Inspectors General.
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DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Claims Another DEI-Related FCA Settlement
On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Deloitte LLP and several of its subsidiaries agreed to pay, collectively, $21.5 million to resolve allegations that Deloitte violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by failing to comply with new anti-discrimination requirements incorporated into its federal contracts, by discriminating against employees and applicants on the basis of race and sex, and by allocating and seeking reimbursement for costs related to those practices under its federal government contracts. This resolution is the second of its kind under DOJ’s recently launched Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, following a similar settlement by IBM in April 2026.
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OCC and FDIC Redefine “Unsafe or Unsound Practices”: The New Supervisory Framework for Banks
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The CSC Is Investigating: What Its New NIL Enforcement Memo Means for Institutions
