CNAS’s Exum on targeted killings
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 25th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
CNAS’s Exum on targeted killings
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Regulators adopting new whistleblower awards; can get up to 30 percent of money recovered
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are adopting a new system of paying awards to whistleblowers who report fraud or other violations at companies to the government.
Under the new system, the Securities and Exchange Commission will pay sizable cash awards to people who come forward to provide the agency with original information that leads to an enforcement action resulting in more than $1 million in penalties. Whistleblowers will be eligible to get as much as 30 percent of the money the SEC recovers from a company or individual.
FEMA aid bill advances as tornado response continues
Lawmakers are pushing a $1 billion aid package for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of the deadly Joplin, Mo., tornado — even as the agency is already stretched thin by other twisters and floods one week before hurricane season begins.
FEMA has already deployed more than 4,300 workers this year in response to dozens of federally declared disasters and has distributed about $149 million in aid. But it is carrying more than $17 billion in debt from storm-related aid in the past six years.
For Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman, Florida’s 2012 primary is wide open
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — All the signs indicate that the early presidential battleground of Florida is Mitt Romney territory.
The former Massachusetts governor finished a strong second here in the 2008 Republican presidential primary. He would almost certainly have the money to compete on Florida’s costly television airwaves. And in a big state where the nation’s economic ills are magnified — more people are out of work, more homes are under foreclosure — a candidate running as a turnaround specialist could resonate.
