Whistleblower Resources
Together, with the help of whistleblowers with successful cases, our staff has compiled a list of resources for those considering blowing the whistle. These whistleblower resources dive into mental health, scholarly resources, interviews and novels with whistleblowers, and more.
PDFs
Whistleblower Term Glossary | From “qui tam” to “materiality” to “The Anti-Kickback Statute,” this glossary is meant to help future whistleblowers understand the basics of the legal landscape.
Whistleblower Program Overview | From The False Claims Act and SEC/CFTC programs to the new Whistleblower Pilot programs, this overview will provide future whistleblowers answers to how these programs work and some of the most frequently asked questions about them.
Whistleblower Resources | A downloadable PDF of this page’s contents.
Websites
– Provides a resource directory with mental health professionals and law firms specializing in whistleblower cases.
– Offers peer support.
Blogs
– Understanding and Preventing the Psychosocial Impacts of Whistleblowing, Part 1 | featuring Jacqueline Garrick
– Understanding and Preventing the Psychosocial Impacts of Whistleblowing, Part 2 | featuring Jacqueline Garrick
Videos
– Whistleblower Trauma & Damages – a panel discussion with whistleblower attorneys discussing the tribulations their clients faced during their cases.
Novels by Whistleblowers
– Tom Mueller – Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
– Cynthia Cooper – Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
– Susan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Unlikely Journey to Silicon Valley and Speaking Out Against Injustice
– Brittany Kaiser – Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy, and How It Can Happen Again
– Andre de Ruyter – Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom
– John Schilling – Undercover: How I Went From Company Man to FBI Spy
– Christopher Wylie – Mindf*ck. Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
– Michael Woodford – Exposure. Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower
Articles
– “The Personal Toll of Whistle-blowing” by Sheelah Kolhatkar
– “Family sues Boeing over whistleblower death” by Theo Leggett
Podcasts
Fraud in America Whistleblower Interviews, from TAF Coalition’s Fraud in America podcast.
“The Whistleblower Playbook” from KQED’s Sukey Lewis featuring whistleblower attorneys.
Scholarly Works
– Jacqueline Garrick & Martina Buck, The Psychosocial Impacts of Whistleblower Retaliation
– Kathy Ahern, Institutional Betrayal and Gaslighting: Why Whistleblowers Are So Traumatized. 32 J. Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 59 (2018)
– K. Kenny, M. Fotaki, & S. Scriver, Mental Health as a Weapon: Whistleblower Retaliation and Normative Violence. Journal of Business Ethics, 160(3), 801-814
– Aaron S. Kesselhiem et al., Whistle-blowers’ Experiences in Fraud Litigation withPharmaceutical Companies, N Engl J Med 2010, 362(19)
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