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Facebook Can Become a 'Weapon' Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Tells Senate

Christopher Wylie, former research director at Cambridge Analytica, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the firmcame up with phrases like 'drain the swamp' that became key campaign themes and slogans.
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National Law Journal

Whistleblower Tells US Senate: Facebook Can Become a 'Weapon'

Christopher Wylie, a research director at Cambridge Analytica from 2013 to 2014, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the firm, co-founded by Steve Bannon, who was campaign manager and later a top White House strategist for President Donald Trump, came up with phrases like “drain the swamp” that became key campaign themes and slogans.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Judges Reopen Whistleblower Suit by Detective Who Saw Errors in Sheridan Probe

A New Jersey appeals court has reinstated a whistleblower suit by a detective who said he suffered adverse job consequences after complaining of errors made by colleagues while investigating the deaths of a prominent couple.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Former Regional SEC Director Joins Finch McCranie

Walter Jospin has landed at Finch McCranie, where he joins former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and a roster of former federal prosecutors.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Lawyer Wins $1.1 Million for Fired Hospital Whistleblower

Fort Lauderdale attorney Michael Petruccelli wins $1.12 million for a health care risk manager, who sued her former employer over what she said was a retaliatory firing.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Sides With Church in Priest Defamation Fight

A state appeals court drops a whistleblowing priest's defamation case against the Diocese of Palm Beach, ruling civil courts were the wrong setting for legal proceedings.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

School's Whistleblower Transfer Not Retaliatory

A jury decided an employee who reported teacher-assisted cheating was not transferred as punishment.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Doping Whistleblower Files Anti-SLAPP Suit Against Brooklyn Nets Owner

A whistleblower who exposed doping by Russian athletes who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics and who was hit with a libel lawsuit is punching back through the courts with claims of his own, accusing the Russian billionaire who owns the Brooklyn Nets National Basketball Association franchise of trying to silence him.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fired Risk Manager Gets $1M After Reporting Hospital Violations

A hospital faces $1.1 million in damages for firing a risk manager who reported nurse work violations to a state agency.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

For-Profit Law School Whistleblower Suit Survives—Barely

InfiLaw Corp.'s problematic admissions practices had already been disclosed in news stories and blog posts before plaintiff Barbara Bernier filed her qui tam suit in 2016, a Florida judge ruled.
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