"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Any individuals with information about any misstatements the contractors may have made to get the contracts could be eligible for a whistleblower award under the False Claims Act

people who say confiscitatory top marginal tax rates depress top-earners’ productivity have clearly never listened to Exile on Main St.

It’s not often you get to read the story of your parents falling in love in the Christie’s catalogue www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Again, this needs to be understood as an anti-whistleblower position. All state AI laws so far are actually whistleblower protections. DOJ -- which depends on whistleblowers for so many of their successful investigations -- needs to understand the implications of any such position

Given that most state-level AI regulation efforts so far are actually just whistleblower protection bills for AI industry folks, this fight needs to be understood as a fight for states' rights to provide additional whistleblower protections

ICIJ and its #CoinLaundry media partners interviewed 45 victims of crypto scams on four continents. In most cases, the funds from the alleged scammers’ wallet addresses were channeled to accounts at major exchanges, including Binance, OKX, HTX and Bybit. www.icij.org/investigatio...

In the 1960s and '70s, the city of Portland seized and destroyed homes in the neighborhood of Central Albina, a thriving Black community, under the guise of "urban renewal". This case, brought by twenty-six Black survivors and descendants of families whose homes were destroyed, settled this June.

Who reads this story and doesn’t take away that there’s a reason we have securities regulators and limits on leverage and complex financial instruments is honestly beyond me apple.news/Aw0-WGu_0RWe...

The SEC has released its annual exam priorities, the first under Chairman Atkins. Notably absent are references to cryptocurrency and the booming private credit market. While the list omits the SEC Whistleblower Program, the agency continues to rely on #whistleblower tips to guide enforcement.

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

Every word of this just makes me furious www.icij.org/investigatio...

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I read the financial press too often. I need to get a life. Time to learn the banjo, etc. Meanwhile, I was wondering what Cathie Wood was up to after not seeing her in every headline every day for a long time. This is a fun one. Start at the bottom.

Last year, I wrote a warning to the AI companies rushing into defense contracting that there was little thing called the False Claims Act and maybe they should learn a little about it before they see US taxpayers as an endless source of cash. Anyway www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...

This is essentially the same story told by the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020. Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.

Our top story: “Bitcoin miners in general, if you map out across the United States, this is my opinion, are taking advantage of small rural communities that don’t have the wherewithal to fight back.”

A new draft crypto bill from Senate Ag is out. I have explained what an incredibly ignorant definition this is, over and over. It's a good proxy for how serious the drafters of this bill are. Google docs are cryptographically secure digital ledgers. www.agriculture.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Rick Scott is right, government funding for health insurance is such a scam. Google “Rick Scott Medicare fraud” to learn more about this important issue

#Whistleblowers save taxpayers billions. A recent Boston University study by Professor Jetson Leder-Luis found $1.9B in #FalseClaimsAct settlements generated nearly $19B in #Medicare savings. Whistleblower lawsuits are a low-cost, effective way to fight fraud and protect public funds.

Crypto aside, when are we going to have a serious conversation about reverse mergers?

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Depends on the misconduct and depends on how the whistle is blown, but generally— yes. A lot of rules in this space protecting whistleblowers’ right to report

The funding exists. USDA has contingency funding for just this purpose.

betamax is back - as a laser disc

No comment on this particular iteration, but generally speaking, hard to find a better quick heuristic for fraud than a company describing its business “as a service”

Money laundering is legal now. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

my most lib opinion: so long as we have law enforcement officers, they should probably be able to pass an exam about what the law allows them to do without consulting notes

I'm feeling an unexpected amount of loss that I will never be able to take my history obsessed kid to DC to see the White House

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

If contractors are being paid by private donors to destroy part of public property, is it a false claim for payment or approval?

“My token will upend the traditional financial system by allowing, through blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, users to abstract and hide their identities while still having access to a traditional, FDIC insured bank account.” This would absolutely get funded on Killer Whales.

Watching baseball and seeing endless GLP-1 provider ads — just putting out in the universe that the DOJ whistleblower program covers non-government payer healthcare fraud

Americans lost over $240 million of their hard-earned savings to crypto ATM scams this year. The companies running these machines profit while doing little to stop it. We need rules that protect people, not profits and scammers.

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

i think this bears repeating whenever Meta and AI are reported on tbh

A seafood wholesaler’s recent price-fixing guilty plea highlights DOJ’s push to crack down on collusion and shows how its new Antitrust Whistleblower Program can empower insiders to report misconduct.

it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing

Fascinating to me how many very smart people I know truly believe stablecoins are stable www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

DOJ’s #Procurement #Collusion Strike Force indicted 2 firms and 3 execs for evading “Made in America” rules and tariffs. DOJ launched PCSF after our client’s bid-rigging case led to a $363M DOJ recovery and $37M award, showing #whistleblowers’ key role in fighting collusion and fraud.

Forever revisiting @poppyalexander.whistleblower.law’s case for combining whistleblower protections with strong AI regulations. Always relevant. ⬇️

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Not saying this isn't part of a deregulatory push (certainly the agency's direction right now!), but the alternate way to read this is telling banks to file fewer defensive SARs, meaning that the SAR data becomes more valuable with less noise. Right now, the incentive is to SAR everything, not good!

If the assumptions here are true -- that the co won the contract under small business set aside rules but with the intent to pass through the actual $/work to a large corp -- that's a big waving crimson red flag for False Claims Act liability

The DOJ has reached its sixth #cybersecurity #FalseClaimsAct settlement in eight months, and fourteen since launching the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative. With CMMC on the way, cybersecurity compliance is clearly a top DOJ enforcement priority. Read more: whistleblower.law/news/uptick-...

Last night, I had the pleasure of watching YINTAH on a big screen thanks to the @impactfund.bsky.social -- highly recommend a viewing (it's on @netflix.com!) for anyone looking for a little inspiration to keep fighting for your community against corporate power www.yintahfilm.com

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Not only that, but some of the worst corporate abuses are found on military bases. Contractors know they have a captive audience and some take abusive advantage