List of whistleblowers

Columns: Year | Name | Organization | Action
1996 | Allan Cutler | Canadian government | The first whistleblower on the Canadian AdScam or sponsorship scandal . Without legal protection , he was fired by the Canadian government . As the case developed , federal legislation was passed to protect future whistleblowers in the Canadian civil service . Several convictions have been recorded to date with the case , with proceedings still in progress | 1996 | David Franklin | Parke-Davis | Exposed illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Neurontin for un-approved uses while withholding evidence that the drug was not effective for these conditions . Parke-Davis 's new owners Pfizer eventually pleaded guilty and paid criminal and civil fines of $ 430 million . The case had widespread effects including : establishing a new standards for pharmaceutical marketing practices ; broadening the use of the False Claims Act to make fraudulent marketing claims criminal violations ; exposing complicity and active participation in fraud by renowned physicians ; and demonstrating how medical literature had been systematically adulterated by the pharmaceutical industry and its paid clinical consultants . Under the False Claims Act Dr Franklin receives $ 24.6m as part of the settlement agreement | 1996 | Michael Ruppert | Los Angeles Police Department | Former LAPD narcotics officer who contested the CIA director John Deutch 's assertions that the CIA was not complicit in drug trafficking during a town hall meeting at Los Angeles ' Locke High School on November 5 , 1995 . At the meeting , Ruppert publicly alleged the existence of classified CIA programs named Amadeus , Pegasus , and Watchtower , claiming to possess evidence for the programs including redacted documents from Watchtower , and stated that CIA officers had attempted to involve him in protecting these CIA operations during the late 1970s . His account corresponds to similar allegations regarding Operation Watchtower | 1996-1998 | Nancy Olivieri | Apotex | Starting in 1996 , Olivieri was part of a group conducting a clinical trial in order to evaluate the use of a drug of Apotex , deferiprone , in treating persons with a blood disorder , thalassaemia . During the course of the trial , Olivieri became concerned about evidence that pointed to the toxicity of the study drug and to the drug being inefficacious . Olivieri informed both the research ethics board that was monitoring the study and Apotex , the drug maker . The research ethics board instructed Olivieri to inform participants about her concerns . Apotex responded by noting that Olivieri had signed a confidentiality agreement as part of the drug trial and that informing participants about her concerns , the validity of which Apotex disputed , would violate that confidentiality agreement . Apotex threatened to vigorously pursue all legal remedies against her if she disclosed her conclusions to patients . Olivieri disclosed her concerns to her patients and Apotex ended the portion of the study in which she was participating . In 1998 , the New England Journal of Medicine published her paper suggesting that deferiprone led to progressive hepatic fibrosis | 1997 | Frederic Whitehurst | Federal Bureau of Investigation | A chemist at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation who was the FBI Laboratory 's foremost expert on explosives residue in the 1990s , and became the first modern-day FBI whistleblower . He reported a lack of scientific standards and serious flaws in the FBI Lab , including in the first World Trade Center bombing cases and the Oklahoma City bombing case . Whitehurst 's whistleblower disclosures triggered an overhaul of the FBI 's crime lab following a report by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General in 1997 . Dr. Whitehurst filed a federal lawsuit claiming whistleblower retaliation , and he reached a settlement with the FBI worth more than $ 1.16 million . Whitehurst now directs the FBI Oversight Project of the National Whistleblower Center | 1997 | David Shayler | MI5 | Along with girlfriend Annie Machon , resigned from MI5 to expose alleged criminal acts by the UK Secret Services , including a failed assassination attempt on Muammar Gaddafi . Shayler also accused the Security Services of planting false stories in the press , substantiated in one example by a court | 1997 | Christoph Meili | UBS | A night guard at a Swiss bank , he discovered that his employer was destroying records of savings by Holocaust victims , which the bank was required to return to heirs of the victims . After the Swiss authorities sought to arrest Meili , he was given political asylum in the United States

Example questions:
What is the organization of the whistle blower in the 1990s who questioned the safety of the Westinghouse AP1000 ? | What is the name of the whistle blower in the 1900s whose organization has 27 laboratories ? | What is the year of the whistle blower in the 1990s who was entitled to $ 750,000 of the settlement ? | What is the year in the 1990s of the whistle blower whose organization operates more than 270 plants and 420 crop procurement facilities worldwide ?

Answers:
Nuclear Energy Services | William Sanjour | 1997 | 1992