“National Whistleblower Center”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax exempt, educational and advocacy organization, founded and operated by the employment lawyers Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP based in Washington, D.C.. Since its founding in 1988, the Center has worked on whistleblower cases relating to environmental protection, nuclear safety, government and corporate accountability, and wildlife crime.

Mission

Programs

NWC provides grassroots advocacy, legal advocacy including amicus curiae briefs submitted on behalf of whistleblowers, legal referrals to whistleblowers in search of counsel, and drafting and supporting whistleblower legislation such as the Dodd–Frank Act, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, and the

Starting in 2013, the U.S. Senate has recognized National Whistleblower Appreciation Day each year at the urging of Senator Chuck Grassley, a founding member of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus in Congress.^[3]^[4]

NWC Accomplishments

In addition to protecting the jobs and careers of numerous whistleblowers, the Center's victories include the following:

Murphy v. IRS

In Murphy v. IRS,^[5] whistleblower Marrita Murphy (represented by David K. Colapinto, general counsel for the National Whistleblower Center) challenged the constitutionality of taxing compensatory damages in civil rights/whistleblower cases. In August, 2006, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Ms. Murphy, and declared unconstitutional a special tax Congress had passed in 1996, which targeted civil rights victims who received compensation for emotional distress damages. However, on July 3, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed itself on the case, holding that the IRS can tax damage awards based solely on compensating victims who suffer emotional injuries.{{cn|date=July 2018}}

Prominent advocated whistleblowers

Mrs. Bunnantine (Bunny) Greenhouse

Jane Turner

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community. Turner also reported on misconduct related to the potential criminal theft of property from the 9/11 Ground Zero crime scene in New York City by Minneapolis FBI personnel. Although she was considered one of the best agents working in Indian Country, Turner's twenty-five year career with the FBI was brought to a halt when she was forced from service as retaliation for what FBI management termed as "tarnishing" the image of the FBI.

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst

Dr. Whitehurst is the Executive Director of the NWC's [https://www.whistleblowers.org/component/content/article/30 Forensic Justice Project]. Dr. Whitehurst received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University, a J.D. from Georgetown University. He joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI crime lab from 1986-98. He retired after winning the first-ever whistleblower case against the FBI.

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

Dr. Coleman-Adebayo was a senior policy analyst for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She founded two employee-rights groups, EPA Employees Against Racial Discrimination and the No FEAR coalition. Through her leadership, the No FEAR Coalition, working closely with Representative James Sensenbrenner, organized a successful grass-roots campaign and obtained overwhelming Congressional support for the "Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act." The Act was signed into law by President Bush in 2002.

Dr. Jonathan Fishbein

The Center has championed the case of one of the highest ranking drug whistleblowers in American history, Dr. Jonathan Fishbein. Dr. Fishbein exposed a series of unethical and improper medical problems within the National Institutes of Health's drug safety clinical trials program. In the wake of Dr. Fishbein's allegations, the United States Department of Health and Human Services enacted sweeping conflict of interest reforms and promised protection of senior ranking employees who blow the whistle. Additionally, drug companies have instituted voluntary reforms in an effort to circumvent congressional acts. Regardless of the scandals that have rocked the drug agency, Congress has still not enacted federal protection for drug whistleblowers.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.whistleblowers.org/about-us|title=About Us|first=|last=Administrator|website=National Whistleblower Center}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.whistleblowers.org/about-us|title=About Us|website=whistleblowers.org|publisher=National Whistleblower Center|access-date=September 4, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/345033-the-message-behind-national-whistleblower-day|title=The message behind National Whistleblower Day|date=August 2, 2017|work=The Hill|accessdate=31 January 2019}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2018/07/grassley-urges-trump-to-honor-whistleblowers-at-white-house/|title=Grassley: Whistleblowers ‘as welcome as a skunk at a picnic’ at agencies. But what about the White House?|last=Heckman|first=Jory|date=July 30, 2018|work=Federal News Network|accessdate=31 January 2019}}
5. ^460 F.3d 79, 2006-2 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) paragr. 50,476, 2006 WL 2411372 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 22, 2006).
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/a-bittersweet-win-for-a-whistleblower/2011/07/26/gIQA8pJUbI_story.html|title=A bittersweet win for a whistleblower|website=Washington Post}}