Whistleblower of the Week

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with former FBI special agent Zach Schoffstall. Schoffstall was a supervisory senior resident agent in the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division. He alleges that he was retaliated against by the FBI after refusing to sign a warrant for a white nationalist organization, the Patriot Front, when he believed there was not action...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with former FBI official Marcus Allen. Allen was suspended by the FBI for 27 months after making a protected disclosure and in 2023 the Bureau revoked his security clearance before he testified before Congress. In 2024, the FBI reinstated Allen’s security clearance and reached a settlement agreement with him for back...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Samsung whistleblower June Bellamy. In 2017, Bellamy blew the whistle on a director in the Service Division at the Johannesburg Samsung Head Office. She was subsequently fired from Samsung and has been fighting for her whistleblower rights in court ever since. During their wide-ranging conversation, Jane and Bel...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with oil industry whistleblower Jonathan Taylor. While serving as an in-house lawyer at SBM Offshore, a Monaco-based Dutch oil and gas services company, Taylor blew the whistle on a corruption scheme where the company offered bribes in order to obtain lucrative government contracts. His whistleblowing helped bring li...

In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Billie Winner-Davis and Victoria Turner about the trauma experienced by family members of whistleblowers who face retaliation. Billie is the mother of Reality Winner , the intelligence community whistleblower imprisoned for leaking a NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts to interfere with the 2...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with former intelligence contractor Reality Winner.  Motivated to act on a belief that the American public was not getting the full truth. Winner leaked a top-secret NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts to hack a Florida-based voting software supplier ahead of the 2016 election to the news media. Winner an...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Aris Danikas, a whistleblower and the founder and CEO of Liberty of Speech . Turner and Danikas discuss his journey from whistleblower, he blew the whistle on human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by police in South Africa, to whistleblower advocate. They also speak about the upcoming conference Global...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Johannah Phenya, the owner of a South African IT company who alongside her husband blew the whistle on alleged corruption and fraud in the awarding of government contracts. Following their whistleblowing, Johannah’s husband, Marumo Phenya, was assassinated. Johannah was honored for her bravery by Blueprint for F...

In this special episode of of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , host Jane Turner speaks with leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn , founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center , about the Department of Justice’s ongoing development of a new whistleblower award program . “We are on the verge of a major whistleblower devel...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Mzukisi Makatse, who blew the whistle on a corrupt grant awarded by the South African Lottery Commission. Makatse was honored for his bravery by Blueprint for Free Speech in their 2023 Whistleblowing Awards . He and Jane discuss his whistleblowing journey, including the immense retaliation he faced, as well as t...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast ,  Jane speaks with María de los Ángeles Estrada, a lawyer in Mexico specializing in transparency and anti-corruption. She serves as the Executive Director of the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Initiative of the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tec de Monterrey, one of the most important and renowned universities in La...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , host Jane Turner speaks with leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn , founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of National Whistleblower Center , about the recent landmark ruling in the Supreme Court whistleblower case Murray v. UBS Securities .  Kohn gives historical perspective on the Sarbanes-Oxle...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner talks to Nikhil Dey, the co-founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) , a workers and peasant empowerment organization based in Rajasthan, India.  MKSS has led transparency and anti-corruption movements across India, including for the Right to Information, minimum wage, protection for gig workers, and more. MKSS pion...

 In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner talks to Dr. Jeremiah P. Johnson, founder and director of the Lamplighter Project. Dr. Johnson recognized a need to support law enforcement whistleblowers who reported criminal misconduct in 2016 from experience in his own police department.    Jeremiah has served in various sworn and civilian roles across the criminal jus...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week, Jane speaks with online disinformation specialist Dr. Joan Donovan, the former Technology and Social Change Research Project Director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. Dr. Donovan blew the whistle on alleged improper donor influence at the Kennedy School. She claims Harvard officials took cues and acted on behalf of Meta’s interes...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner speaks with Ottawa police whistleblower Constable Kimberly Cadarette, who faced retaliation for reporting sexual harassment within the Ottawa Police Department.  Turner and Cadarette discuss their shared experience as female law enforcement whistleblowers and the sinister way “Fitness for Duty” exams were lever...

Happy Holidays and A Happy New Year from the Whistleblower of the Week Team!  In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner speaks with South African whistleblower Patrick Maduna and whistleblower advocate John Clarke. Turner, Maduna and Clarke discuss Patrick’s whistleblowing: he blew the whistle on alleged financial mismanagement and fraud at his former...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner speaks with law enforcement whistleblower Austin Handle, a former police officer in Georgia and the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Lamplighter Project . Handle provides updates on his whistleblower retaliation case since Turner profiled him for Whistleblower of the Week back in 2020. Handle and Turner also disc...

This week, WOW Host Jane Turner speaks with Ted Blickwedel. Blickwedel is a Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and combat veteran who became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker after retiring. He blew the whistle on the VA’s productivity policies that put pressure on counselors who treat combat veterans. Blickwedel asserted the VA’s policies were harmful to counselors and compromised the quality of car...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast , FBI whistleblower Jane Turner continues her conversation with Ashley Gjøvik. A former senior engineering program manager at Apple, Gjøvik was fired from the tech giant after raising a series of concerns including environmental concerns, violations of employee privacy, harassment, and retaliation. In this second part of a two-part podcast,...

In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner records from Washington D.C., where she is in town to celebrate National Whistleblower Day on Capitol Hill . Turner is joined by Whistleblower of the Week producer Victoria Thompson to discuss the Revolutionary War origins of National Whistleblower Day, the past decade of Senate National Whistleblower D...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner talks with Ashley Gjøvik. A former senior engineering program manager at Apple, Gjøvik was fired from the tech giant after raising a series of concerns including environmental concerns, violations of employee privacy, harassment, and retaliation. In this first part of two-part podcast, Gjøvik recounts the story...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner talks with Allison Herren Lee , former Commissioner of the SEC who now serves as Of Counsel for the whistleblower defense law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto . Turner and Lee discuss Lee’s experience working with whistleblowers at the SEC and how she saw their bravery firsthand. Lee also explains why after leav...

In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner talks with the leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn about the release of his book, Rules for Whistleblowers . In this episode, we learn how whistleblowers have saved lives, stopped frauds, protected their jobs, and earned million-dollar rewards for doing the right thing. Rules for Whistleblowers is Ko...

“How do we make sure the hierarchy of laws is enacted in a different way because if we live in democracies, the interest of a single company or the market at large must not come before the interest of the population at large” In this episode, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner has a follow up conversation  with Apple whistleblower Thomas Le Bonniec. Le Bonniec explains the legality of Non Disclosure Ag...