{"id":43652,"date":"2018-11-23T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43652"},"modified":"2018-11-23T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:50:15","slug":"whistleblower-protection-plutocrats-and-dark-money-the-november-taxcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/23\/whistleblower-protection-plutocrats-and-dark-money-the-november-taxcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower protection, plutocrats and dark money: the  November Taxcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/thetaxcast\">Taxcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we look at how governments can better protect, encourage and even incentivise whistleblowers.<\/li>\n<li>what do the latest Brexit developments tell us about dark money, the \u2018influence industry\u2019 and plutocracy?<\/li>\n<li>And, we hear from the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alston_UNSR\">Philip Alston<\/a>\u00a0on his findings from his UK visit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lawyer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryInman94\">Mary Inman<\/a>\u00a0of Constantine Cannon, specialised in representing whistleblowers in the UK, the EU and worldwide under US American whistleblower reward programmes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jecrhistensen\">John Christensen<\/a>\u00a0of the Tax Justice Network<\/li>\n<li>Produced and presented\u00a0 by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/naomi_fowler\">Naomi Fowler<\/a>\u00a0of the Tax Justice Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the government can audit from the outside all day long but all it takes is one well-placed insider to bring the information to the government and show first-hand what was going on. Prosecutors will tell you their number one enforcement tool that they use is whistleblowers We need to see more and better whistleblower programmes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~Lawyer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryInman94\">Mary Inman<\/a>\u00a0of Constantine Cannon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jechristensen56\">John Christensen<\/a>\u00a0of the Tax Justice Network on the latest Brexit and dark money allegations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cif this is the case then this is a truly toxic story of radical right wingers in Britain, and the United States working together to use possibly illegal foreign funding to influence a democratic process in the UK with a very distinct possibility that some, or all of this funding was routed through offshore jurisdictions to disguise its origins\u2026plutocrats are rapidly enforcing their grip over the institutions of the State\u2026we now need to start seriously addressing how can we fund elections without involving dark money and the extraordinary resources of the plutocrats.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orwmMUB1sLw?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"mep_0\" class=\"mejs-container mejs-container-keyboard-inactive wp-audio-shortcode mejs-audio\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Audio Player\">\n<div class=\"mejs-inner\">\n<div class=\"mejs-controls\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly\u00a0Taxcast: we look at how governments can better protect, encourage and even incentivise whistleblowers. what do the latest<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/23\/whistleblower-protection-plutocrats-and-dark-money-the-november-taxcast\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}