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The first ever Whistleblower Film Festival is opening this Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:30 pm at the Capitol Visitors Center; 1st Street and East Capitol Street, NE. The first film will be The Pentagon Wars. The film is free and open to the public. The Whistleblower Film Festival is part of the DC Labor FilmFest which features a series of films from October 13-16.  The Whistleblower Film Festival will continue every Thursday in October with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (10-8), Silkwood (10-15), The Insider (10-22) and finally, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (10-29). Sponsors of the Whistleblower Film Festival include the Project On Government Oversight, Public Citizen, the Government Accountability Project, the National Whistleblowers Center, Union of Concerned Scientists, Bernabei & Wachtel, the Fund for Constitutional Government, Marshall & Banks and The Nation Institute. The Festival is part of their call for the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), a bill to give federal employee whistleblowers effective access to jury trials.

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In response to the many requests from our Attorney Referral Service (ARS) members and non-members looking for advice on whistleblower protection cases, the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund will hold a two-hour telephone conference call on Wednesday September 30th from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST) conducted by leading attorney experts.  This is the ideal way for attorneys to get answers to your tough questions about whistleblower protection, case strategies, legal remedies and laws.

NWC Special Counsel Dean A. Zerbe was recently added to the faculty for the call to address tax and False Claims Act questions.  Mr. Zerbe was active in Congressional investigations of government waste, fraud and abuse for over 25 years.  Mr. Zerbe left Congress in 2008 where his last position was as Senior Counsel and Tax Counsel on the Senate Finance Committee for Senator Charles E. Grassley. In his work for Senator Grassley, Mr. Zerbe was the driving force behind the drafting and passage of legislation that created the Whistleblower Office at the IRS as well as changes in the tax code that greatly expanded the rewards for tax whistleblowers. In addition, Mr. Zerbe was closely involved with the False Claims Act on behalf of Senator Grassley - who is the author of the modern False Claims Act/Qui Tam.

Faculty also includes Stephen M. Kohn, National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) Executive Director, Michael D. Kohn, NWC President, David K. Colapinto, NWC General Counsel, and Richard R. Renner, NWC Legal Director.

SIGN UP TODAY FOR THIS SPECIAL CONFERENCE CALL OPPORTUNITY!

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The Informant! is a new movie that plays the price-fixing crimes of ADM, and the embezzlement of whistleblower Mark Whitacre, for airy comedy. The original music track by Marvin Hamlisch gives an upbeat 1960's feel to this 1990's corporate crime drama.

The producers of The Informant! provided a screening of their new film for whistleblower advocates in Washington, DC.  They hope to start a dialogue about what their film can contribute to the whistleblower cause.  It is a serious endeavor spawned from a film that looks for laughs. Then again, whether we can reach deeper insights, and wider audiences, while laughing is itself a serious question. The informant! is opening tonight.

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The Open Society Institute National Security Human Rights Campaign is sponsoring an event on September 15th entitled, “Whistle-blowers: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean.”  The event celebrates the U.S. premiere of the feature documentary, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.”

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