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The Hot New Career: Whistleblower

Posted by Neal Lipschutz on November 01, 2010
Corporate Governance, Crime, Government, Law, Regulation, Securities & Exchange Commission, United States, Washington / Comments Off

Next time career day comes around to local grade schools, don’t be surprised if some ambitious third grader raises his hand and announces he wants to grow up to be a whistleblower.

College courses and a new major are sure to follow. Maybe whistleblowing can be housed under criminal justice study, or, perhaps, sociology.

Who could blame the apocryphal youngster cited above, especially after recent news that a former employee of GlaxoSmithKline PLC picked up a cool $96 million for information that helped lead to a $750 million settlement between the comany and the Department of Justice.

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