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Three whistleblowers of the General Electric nuclear power plant
Goran Lefkov Gregory Minor, Richard Hubbard and Dale Bridenbaugh are the three whistleblowers who first went public on February 2, 1976 and said that the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was unsafe. They were known to the public as the General Electric Three. They alerted the public that the new way of installing the installation in the first-generation nuclear power plants was not safe. Their action was called...
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David Franklin of Pfizer received a whopping $24 million for disclosing manipulations with the medicine Neurontin
Goran Lefkov David Franklin is an American microbiologist and former Harvard Medical School associate who, while employed by Parke-Davis, filed a whistleblower lawsuit in 1996 exposing their illegal promotion of Neurontin (gabapentin) for unethical use. Franklin’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of the citizens of the United States under the qui tam provisions of the US federal and state law, exposed illegal practices by the pharmaceutical industry and set a...
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Jeffrey Wigand, the man who disclosed the manipulation of ammonia to enhance the effect of nicotine in cigarettes
Jeffrey Wigand, the man who disclosed the manipulation of ammonia to enhance the effect of nicotine in cigarettes Goran Lefkov Tobacco industry has been known to manipulate science since the 1950s and 1960s when it poured money into “scientists” to dispute the findings of real scientists who came out with claims about the harmfulness of nicotine to human health. Jeffrey Wigand appeared a little later, in the mid-90s, on...
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Vanunu – the man who disclosed Israel’s nuclear weapons
Goran Lefkov In the 1970s and 1980s, there were many disclosures in developed countries related to the misuse of nuclear power plants. The most common reasons were the security of the power plants, and the second reason was the secret programs for developing nuclear weapons. There was a big famous case of whistleblowing in Israel in 1986. Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician in Dimona, Israel, fled to the United...
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Francis Haugen, a powerful Facebook whistleblower
Last year, Haugen first sounded the alarm on Facebook. Led by a personal emotional story of a person close to her who became radicalized due to Facebook violations Goran Lefkov Francis Haugen is the latest big whistleblower. She “whistled” last year. The hardship and weight she lived with had been unbearable. Her close friend, who took care of her recovery from 2011 to 2014, has radicalized himself, “thanks” to...
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Magnitsky’s heroism also brought him law in the United States
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky, a Ukrainian-born in 1972. He worked as a tax advisor and auditor in Russia. Named for him, the Magnitsky Act was passed in the United States in 2012, by which all corrupt politicians and oligarchs in the world are prosecuted. Goran Lefkov Sergei Magnitsky was one of the biggest whistleblowers in Eastern Europe. He worked as a tax advisor for Hermitage Capital Management, where a large...
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The Merrill Lynch case raised Keith Schooley to the seven most influential whistleblowers
Author: Goran Lefkov The case of the US investment bank Merrill Lynch in the 1990s brought new winds to the money industry. One of the 5 largest investment banks in the United States, Merrill Lynch, falsified documents for its managers and several other corrupt practices that go against the code of ethics that the bank itself had adopted. Thus, the bank entered into corruption scandals, which cost investors a...
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Mark Felt – creator of Watergate
Author: Goran Lefkov The Watergate scandal is one of the most notorious scandals in the United States in the last century. The event was named after the Democratic Party’s headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 17, 1972. It was an illegal intrusion into the headquarters of the party in which people from the administration of the then US President Richard Nixon were involved. Wiretapped materials were brought before the...
