Joined by other prominent voices in public and private sector whistleblowing, whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn appeared at this year’s Association of Inspectors General Annual Training Conference in Washington, D.C.
Kohn, the Chairman of the Board of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) sat alongside Samantha Feinstein, Staff Attorney and the Director of the International Program at Government Accountability Project (GAP), Stephen Croley, the Bureau of Naval Personnel’s Inspector General, and Kenneth Sharpless, Whistleblower Protection Coordinator at the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Inspector General.
The audience was comprised of over 200 people in inspector general roles and related fields across local, state, and federal offices, as well as private companies.
The panel was moderated by Sheryl Goodman, president of Procurement Integrity Consulting Services, LLC, which offers consulting services in areas of procurement, whistleblower protection and complaint intake systems.
Kohn, who is also a founding partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP, described the success of whistleblower-led cases under the False Claims Act (FCA). The U.S. Department of Justice annually publishes its “Fraud Statistics,” which reported that since 1986, over $48 billion has been collected in qui tam cases.
Cases initiated purely by government investigation only saw collections amounting to $21.9 billion in the same amount of time.
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