Whistleblowers

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Whistleblowers

• Cynthia Cooper was the whistleblower who exposed
  massive accounting fraud at WorldCom in 2002.
• A native of Clinton, Mississippi, Cooper worked
  as the Vice President of Internal Audit at
  WorldCom. After conducting a thorough
  investigation in secret, she informed WorldCom's
  board that the company had covered up 3.8
  billion in losses through phony bookkeeping. At
  the time, this was the largest incident of
  accounting fraud in U.S. history.

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• Cooper previously worked for the Atlanta offices
  of public accounting firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers
  and Deloitte Touche. She received an
  undergraduate degree in accounting from
  Mississippi State University and a Masters of
  Accountancy from the University of Alabama. She
  is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in
  Georgia, Certified Information Systems Auditor
  (CISA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
• Cooper was named as one of three "People of the
  Year" by Time magazine in 2002.

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• Allen S. Cutler was a Canadian civil servant who
  became notable for his role in the sponsorship
  scandal by acting as the whistleblower, Cutler
  both triggered the scandal and lost his job. He
  had been working for the Ministry of Public Works
  and Government Services.
• On November 23, 2005, the Conservative Party of
  Canada announced Mr. Cutler would be its
  candidate in the riding of Ottawa South in the
  upcoming federal election. He does not live in
  the riding, though. 1 He failed to defeat
  incumbent MP David McGuinty.

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• Cutler was born in Ottawa, is married and has two
  children. He has a degree in Economics from
  Carleton University. He is also a director of the
  Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform.
• Although his good deed was praised, the Ottawa
  Citizen defined Cutler as "one-note-pony".
• Interestingly, Cutler claimed he had never had
  any intention of running for Parliament. However,
  Cutler did a number of high-profile interviews
  before the campaign had begun.

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• Shanmughan Manjunath (1978-2005) was an engineer
  for the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) who was
  murdered for opposing corruption in the erstwhile
  government firm's petrol pumps.
• Manjunath was born in Kolar, India, near
  Bangalore. He earned his engineering degree from
  Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering,
  Mysore, and an MBA from IIM, Lucknow.
• While working for the Indian Oil Corporation
  (IOC) in Lucknow, he had ordered two petrol pumps
  at Lakhimpur Kheri sealed for selling adulterated
  fuel for three months. When the pump started
  operating again a month later, Manjunath decided
  to conduct a surprise raid around November 19,
  2005.

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• Having not heard from his son for three days, at
  around 9 that night, his father, M Shanmughan,
  had sent an SMS How are you?.
• There was no reply, because that very evening,
  during his inspection, Manjunath had been
  abducted, badly beaten up and eventually shot
  dead. His body, riddled with at least six
  bullets, was found in the backseat of his own
  car, which was being driven by two employees of
  the petrol pump. Both were arrested and the main
  accused, pump-owner Monu Mittal, was held on
  November 23 along with four others.

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• Following the murder, there was immense media
  spotlight on the case. S. Manjunath's batchmates
  from IIM Lucknow (where he was affectionately
  called machan1) also kept the story alive.
  Indian Oil Corporation paid Rs. 26 lakhs
  compensation to the family. The matter of
  adulteration in diesel was taken up by the Energy
  Coordination Committee chaired by Prime Minister
  Manmohan Singh. One of the policy remedies being
  considered is to minimize the subsidy in the
  price of kerosene (used as cooking fuel by the
  weaker classes), and to explore alternate
  mechanisms for implementing the subsidy.
  Subsequently, several tanker trucks, laden with
  thousands of liters of kerosene, were seized en
  route to a district neighbouring Lakhimpur Kheri
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• Investigations into the murder are going on.
• A pan IIM initiative, The Manjunath Shanmugam
  Trustwas registered early February. With
  immediate objectives of fighting the case, they
  have a broader agenda of improving governance in
  Indian public life

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• One of the policy remedies being considered is to
  minimize the subsidy in the price of kerosene
  (used as cooking fuel by the weaker classes), and
  to explore alternate mechanisms for implementing
  the subsidy. Subsequently, several tanker trucks,
  laden with thousands of liters of kerosene, were
  seized en route to a district neighboring
  Lakhimpur Kheri 2.
• Investigations into the murder are going on.
• A pan IIM initiative, The Manjunath Shanmugam
  Trust was registered early February. With
  immediate objectives of fighting the case, they
  have a broader agenda of improving governance in
  Indian public life.

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• In a handwritten letter to his friend, the hero
  of this story had written "My conscience is my
  biggest virtue, my wealthiest treasure and my
  best guide or friend. I always do what my
  conscience tells or compels me to do. I want to
  keep this candle of humanity ever glowing in my
  heart.'' The hero's story was a shocking one with
  a sob ending.

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• He could have continued doing his job as a deputy
  general manager in the Centres National Highway
  Authority of India (NHAI) and shut his eyes to
  the variegated ways in which a prestigious
  project - Instead Dubey opted to do the right
  thing by alerting the PMO to these developments
  because he believed the project was of
  unparalleled importance to the nation. He paid
  with his life for having done so  -
  Indian Express 

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