How to Use whistleblower in a Sentence

whistleblower

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  • The New York Times was first to report the whistleblower complaint.
    — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Word got out that there was a whistleblower wanting to meet.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His lawyers questioned why the whistleblowers went to the FBI, rather than to Paxton, with their concerns.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Dean is the second Boeing whistleblower to die this year.
    — Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • The identity of the whistleblower has not been made public.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The whistleblower case is still active and the plaintiffs have received no money to date.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Herstein filed suit as a whistleblower asking to get his job back.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Members of the group told the Times that the airman was not a whistleblower, and the secret documents were never meant to go beyond their group.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One of the whistleblowers in the wings represented by Knowles and Turkewitz just stepped forward.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • This transmission was one of at least three whistleblower complaints sent to the board about a small cohort of senior staff since 2019.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But then a whistleblower reached out to a local law professor.
    — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Scott, the whistleblower who filed the lawsuit in 2016, is a former actuary for Humana.
    — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These are not Republican whistleblowers by the way, these are Democrats.
    — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The whistleblower complaints came from about a dozen school employees.
    — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On Friday, the whistleblower responded to the Ford letter.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Prior to 2019, if a technician wasn’t certified, Ford wouldn’t pay for the repair, the whistleblower said.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Hundreds have been arrested since and there have been no whistleblowers.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Barnett later filed a whistleblower complaint with the FAA.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Some whistleblower lawyers are encouraging more reporting of any agreement that might fall afoul of the spirit of the law.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Both Garland and Weiss, in letters to Congress, have disputed the whistleblower's claims.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • However, the fentanyl lollipops could not be secured because a vendor could not be found in time, the whistleblower said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Now one of America’s top whistleblower attorneys is moving to stop the SEC.
    — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The scandal began after a whistleblower came forward in April 2023.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The newspaper won access to a settlement agreement that showed Kilpatrick approved a deal in the whistleblower suit with Brown and two other ex-cops who sued him.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • With the help of two full-time employees who run down tips from whistleblowers, his strategy is to cluster attacks on one company at a time.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Congress gave Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, a hero’s welcome.
    — Tim Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Before his death, the whistleblower, who spent about 30 years with Boeing, raised various alleged safety concerns about the planes.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
  • After the Guardado shooting, a whistleblower claimed that Vega and Hernandez were prospective members of the group.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The senators highlighted the need for DHS to provide transparency about whistleblowers' rights.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Hawley appeared on Fox News’s Hannity on Tuesday to discuss the implications of these whistleblowers’ claims.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024

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