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“As reported Finbold, the non-profit educational organization Empower Oversight is leading investigations against the regulatory agency after you have submitted a request for access to communication between SEC officials, including your current and former employees. The organization submitted the request through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It also intends to review communication surrounding the …

“Empower Oversight, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing, has submitted a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The FOIA request is seeking communications between SEC officials and their current and former employers amid the turbulent lawsuit against Ripple and its …

“A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 to beef up the government’s most potent tool to fight fraud… “Full text of the Administrative False Claims Act can be found HERE. A summary of the legislation can be found HERE. The bill is endorsed by several government accountability groups, including Empower Oversight, …

“Whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing in the financial services arena can reap hefty monetary payouts from regulators like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when their tips lead to enforcement actions. “But for government workers — and in industries less lucrative for the would-be whistleblower — that’s not the case. Paying a high-powered private attorney is infeasible for …

Listen to Empower Oversight Founder Jason Foster on the Just the News podcast HERE.

“Government watchdog groups asked President Joe Biden to weigh in on allegations against an outgoing agency inspector general. The Federal Housing Finance Authority’s Inspector General Laura Wertheimer is stepping down at the end of this month, after a report from the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency found she fostered a culture of …

“The group’s Empower Oversight, Government Accountability Project, and Project on Government Oversight wrote a letter to Biden telling the president of a “culture of fear and intimidation” at the agency produced by Wertheimer, which went against Biden’s promise to fire government officials if they ‘treat another colleague with disrespect’ or ‘talk down to someone,’ Biden said he would fire them ‘on …

Three wrote to the president following the IG’s resignation announcement.  Three nonprofit organizations are calling on President Biden to take action to restore confidence and morale at the Federal Housing Finance Agency inspector general office following the IG’s upcoming resignation.  Last week, the embattled FHFA IG Laura Wertheimer told her staff she plans to resign effective July …

“A group of experienced Capitol Hill investigators and whistleblowing experts are banding together to fight government and corporate corruption with the creation of a new oversight organization dedicated to giving Americans a ‘check on unelected bureaucrats and corporate elites.’ “’The main thing that we want to do is to become a resource for people who …

“Acolytes of Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who the New York Times once described as “a sort of patron saint of whistleblowers,” launched an organization to advocate for whistleblowers and whistle-blowing on the same day that President Joe Biden signed legislation co-sponsored by the Iowa Republican establishing a whistleblower award program at the Commodity …