This is the story of the most successful—and least known—whistleblower operation of all time. Four men who have made a vast fortune blowing the whistle on the drug industry, forcing Big Pharma to pay the federal government over a billion dollars in settlements.
With new whistleblower rules coming to Wall Street, the industry's lobbyists have mounted a furious behind-the-scenes effort to constrain the reach of the new protections.
Whistleblowers who expose fraud, corruption and other kinds of wrongdoing can be deeply religious people, whose faith gives them an identity outside their corporate life.
The SEC has chosen a former Altria and AOL executive to head its new Whistleblower Office, the commission said Friday. Sean McKessy will wield the new power given to the SEC under the Dodd-Frank law passed last year.