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Posted: 4/24/2013 1:18:23 PM EST
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination. Senate Democrats are delaying a confirmation vote on Perez after Republicans threatened to use a separate hearing to criticize his handling of a whistleblower case. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 4:34:57 AM EST
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny listens to a question during an interview at the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 8, 2013. Navalny made his name as an anti-corruption whistleblower and spearheaded massive anti-Kremlin protests that followed the rigged parliament election in Dec. 2011. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 2:18:47 PM EST
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny drinks tea while speaking to a journalist during an interview in the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 8, 2013. Navalny made his name as an anti-corruption whistleblower and spearheaded massive anti-Kremlin protests that followed the rigged parliament election in Dec. 2011. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 2:18:47 PM EST
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny smiles as he speaks to a journalist during an interview in the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 8, 2013. Navalny made his name as an anti-corruption whistleblower and spearheaded massive anti-Kremlin protests that followed the rigged parliament election in Dec. 2011. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Posted: 4/6/2013 4:08:30 PM EST
Eric Murdock speaks during a news conference in East Hanover, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2013. Murdock, a former Rutgers empoyee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and athletic director's resignation, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university. Murdock filed the lawsuit Friday in state court, claiming the university violated the state's employee protection act and his contract. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 6:18:42 PM EST
Eric Murdock listens during a news conference in East Hanover, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2013. Murdock, a former Rutgers empoyee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and athletic director's resignation, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university. Murdock filed the lawsuit Friday in state court, claiming the university violated the state's employee protection act and his contract. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 6:18:42 PM EST
Eric Murdock arrives for a news conference in East Hanover, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2013. Murdock, a former Rutgers empoyee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and athletic director's resignation, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university. Murdock filed the lawsuit Friday in state court, claiming the university violated the state's employee protection act and his contract. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 5:38:27 PM EST
Eric Murdock listens during a news conference in East Hanover, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2013. Murdock, a former Rutgers empoyee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and athletic director's resignation, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university. Murdock filed the lawsuit Friday in state court, claiming the university violated the state's employee protection act and his contract. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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Posted: 1/15/2013 5:18:36 PM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, file photo, then-Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary walks the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Syracuse in State College, Pa. Penn State's lawyers asked a judge on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, to throw out a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit filed by McQueary, who testified he saw Jerry Sandusky attack a boy in a school shower more than a decade ago. The former assistant football coach's lawsuit is too vague and does not meet legal standards to support claims of defamation and misrepresentation, the university wrote in a court filing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster File)
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Posted: 12/20/2012 12:53:34 PM EST
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., to testify in the child sexual abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 denied Penn State's request to put on hold McQueary's whistleblower and defamation lawsuit until related criminal cases are resolved. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 11/20/2012 9:24:02 PM EST
A HP Invent logo is pictured in front of Hewlett-Packard international offices in Meyrin near Geneva in this August 4, 2009, file photo. Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on November 20,2012, it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following the May ouster of former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
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Posted: 11/20/2012 9:24:02 PM EST
A HP Invent logo is pictured in front of Hewlett-Packard international offices in Meyrin near Geneva in this August 4, 2009, file photo. Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on November 20,2012, it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following the May ouster of former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
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Posted: 11/20/2012 9:24:02 PM EST
A HP Invent logo is pictured in front of Hewlett-Packard international offices in Meyrin near Geneva in this August 4, 2009, file photo. Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on November 20,2012, it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following the May ouster of former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
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Posted: 11/16/2012 2:38:35 AM EST
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Centre County Courthouse to testify in the child sexual abuse trial of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in Bellefonte, Pa. Lawyers for Penn State and McQueary are heading to court Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, over the university's request to put his whistleblower and defamation lawsuit on hold. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Posted: 9/28/2012 6:38:28 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2012 file photo, newly-appointed President of Olympus Corp. Hiroyuki Sasa, left, speaks as his predecessor Shuichi Takayama, second left, and two outside directors of the company, Hiroshi Kuruma, second right, and Yasuo Hayashida, attend a press conference in Tokyo when the entire board of scandal-tainted Olympus resigned and the new president was tapped to lead a turnaround at the Japanese medical equipment maker. Sony and Olympus have agreed on a business alliance that will see Sony Corp. invest 50 billion yen ($640 million) for an 11 percent stake in the embattled medical equipment and camera company. Olympus has been on shaky ground after its British chief executive turned whistleblower and helped unearth a scandal involving a systematic cover-up of massive losses. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Posted: 9/11/2012 12:58:29 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, pauses during a press conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville Pa, before reporting to the federal prison. The Internal Revenue Service has awarded the ex-banker $104 million for providing information about overseas tax cheats — the largest amount ever awarded by the agency, lawyers for the whistleblower announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File )
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Posted: 9/11/2012 12:58:26 PM EST
FILE - This undated handout photo released by the National Whistleblowers Center, shows former UBS employee Bradley Birkenfeld. The Internal Revenue Service has awarded the ex-banker $104 million for providing information about overseas tax cheats — the largest amount ever awarded by the agency, lawyers for the whistleblower announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/National Whistleblowers Center, File)
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Posted: 3/30/2012 8:30:47 AM EST
In this Thursday, March 15, 2012 file photo, opposition activist Alexei Navalny speaks to the media at a court in Moscow, Russia. Russia's leading corruption whistleblower on Friday, March 30, 2012, leveled accusations of graft at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's close ally Igor Shuvalov. Alexei Navalny posted in his blog the scans of documents that show tens of millions of U.S. dollars transferred to the account of Shuvalov's company from firms that Navalny alleges are owned by billionaires Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, file)
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Posted: 3/30/2012 8:30:46 AM EST
In this Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 file photo, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov seen during a meeting of the Council on Foreign Investments in Moscow, Russia. Russia's leading corruption whistleblower on Friday, March 30, 2012, leveled accusations of graft at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's close ally Igor Shuvalov. Alexei Navalny posted in his blog the scans of documents that show tens of millions of U.S. dollars transferred to the account of Shuvalov's company from firms that Navalny alleges are owned by billionaires Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, file)
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Posted: 2/23/2012 4:16:30 PM EST
Presenter Charlie Sheen announces the winner of the award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series to actor Jim Parsons for television series "The Big Bang Theory" at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in this September 18, 2011 file photo. A former District of Columbia police commander whose unit escorted actor Sheen has said he plans to file a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging he was demoted because he said such escorts were common. Picture taken September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) (EMMYS-SHOW)
