• The iPhone Has Been Hacked

    A group called Security Evaluators hacked the iPhone with less than two weeks of part-time work, and has notified Apple of its vulnerabilities. Here’s how easy they say it is to hack the iPhone: A hacker takes over a wireless […]

  • 5 Years of Sarbanes-Oxley

    That’s right. We are fast approaching the 5 year anniversary of the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Who’s celebrating? Well surely the consultants and accountants who have made a fortune off SOX consulting are celebrating a bit. Over […]

  • What Frauds Are Prevalent, And Preventable

    Compliance Week By Jaclyn Jaeger While government officials congratulate themselves for a job well done since establishing the Corporate Fraud Task Force five years ago, experts tell Compliance Week that institutional fraud is still a rampant problem. According to a […]

  • Dateline NBC Investigates Identity Theft

    Chris Hansen went undercover to investigate credit card fraud and identity theft, and the results were aired last night on Dateline NBC. The heart of the problem is people stealing credit card and banking information, selling it to people overseas, […]

  • OxyContin abuse and addiction, and deceptive marketing

    Whistleblower Law Blog has a post about OxyContin abuse and the Purdue Pharma sentencing. Executives of Purdue Pharma were sentenced to probation and community service in drug treatment programs for lying about the risk of addiction and abuse with OxyContin. […]

  • Supreme Court of Wisconsin – Lawyer License Suspension

    SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN CASE NO.: 2006AP578-D COMPLETE TITLE: In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Hazel J. Washington, Attorney at Law: Office of Lawyer Regulation, Complainant, v. Hazel J. Washington, Respondent. OPINION FILED: May 30, 2007 David R. Schanker […]

  • Wisconsin Office of Laywer Regulation Public Reprimand With Consent

    SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN – OFFICE OF LAWYER REGULATION Public Reprimand With Consent 2007-OLR-10 Hazel J. Washington, Attorney at Law Attorney Hazel J. Washington (“Washington”), a Wisconsin bar member since 1988, practiced law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Washington’s law license was […]

  • The story of whistelblower David Welch

    David Welch was the CFO of Cardinal Bancshares, and the first person to file a claim for whistleblower protection under Sarbanes-Oxley Section 806. The Department of Labor ruled in his favor in regards to reinstatement to his job. But Cardinal […]

  • Whistleblowers under Sarbanes-Oxley

    A study of almost 1,000 whistleblower complaints filed under Sarbanes-Oxley has found that none has resulted in a “win” for the whistleblower. Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is meant to give protection to employees of public companies who report […]

  • Book Publishing: Putting together the proposal

    I had a winner of an idea for a book on fraud, and I had a willing publisher in John Wiley & Sons. I expected the next step of the process to be putting together a book proposal. My friend […]