Women’s History Month began as just a weeklong event in 1981, and a few years later in 1987, Congress designated March of the same year as “Women’s History Month.” According to a Library of Congress website, “[s]ince 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as ‘Women’s History Month.’”
WNN recently had the opportunity to interview four incredible women whistleblowers. One pair never worked directly with each other but voiced health and safety concerns regarding children in the place they both worked, while the other duo fought together for years and years to be heard after blowing the whistle on a huge fraud scheme.
Check out these incredible whistleblowing stories from four women in their own words: Kait Hess and Lauren Reinhold, who blew the whistle on living conditions for immigrant children at Fort Bliss Detention Center, and Sarah Carver and Jennifer Griffith, who raised the alarm about a fraud involving the Social Security Administration, corrupt judges and doctors, and disability benefits.
In this interview, Jane Turner, FBI whistleblower and host of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast talks with Lauren Reinhold and Kait Hess. Both Reinhold and Hess were federal employees from different agencies: in 2021, they answered the call to serve as volunteer detailees at an Emergency...
FDA and consumer protection officials suspended production at a Samut Sakhon canned fish factory after alleged false labelling Thai food and consumer protection authorities have ordered a canned f...