The regulator is considering whether monetary rewards can offset the career risks of reporting fraud
Whistleblowing has been a key component in the discovery of fraud and illegality since US naval officers Samuel Shaw and Richard Marven filed a complaint against their commander in 1777, accusing him of torturing British prisoners of war.
The pair’s actions, taken at considerable personal risk, led to the suspension of the accused — Commodore Hopkins — as well as prompting Congress to pass what some have called the first US law to protect whistleblowers.
A Massachusetts man was arrested this week and accused of impersonating an Army veteran for more than three decades, receiving tens of thousands of dollars in VA medical care and committing crimes...