In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner
speaks with former FBI special agent Zach Schoffstall. Schoffstall was a supervisory senior resident agent in the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division. He alleges that he was retaliated against by the FBI after refusing to sign a warrant for a white nationalist organization, the Patriot Front, when he believed there was not actionable evidence.
 
During their wide-ranging conversation, Jane and Schoffstall discuss his
upbringing, his career at the FBI and the similarities in their experiences facing retaliation from the Bureau.

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner
speaks with former FBI official Marcus Allen.

Allen was suspended by the FBI for 27 months after making a protected
disclosure and in 2023 the Bureau revoked his security clearance before he
testified before Congress. In 2024, the FBI reinstated Allen’s security clearance
and reached a settlement agreement with him for backpay for his suspension.

During their wide-ranging conversation, Jane and Allen discuss his upbringing,
his suspension from the FBI and what changes the Bureau needs to make to
better support whistleblowers. They are joined in conversation by Tristan Leavitt,
President of Empower Oversight.

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner
speaks with Samsung whistleblower June Bellamy.
In 2017, Bellamy blew the whistle on a director in the Service Division at the
Johannesburg Samsung Head Office. She was subsequently fired from Samsung
and has been fighting for her whistleblower rights in court ever since.
During their wide-ranging conversation, Jane and Bellamy discuss her upbringing,
her decision to blow the whistle, and her journey since coming forward.
For more information about June, or to her support her in her whistleblowing
journey, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/june-battles-against-corruption-in-
samsung

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with oil industry whistleblower Jonathan Taylor. While serving as an in-house lawyer at SBM Offshore, a Monaco-based Dutch oil and gas services company, Taylor blew the whistle on a corruption scheme where the company offered bribes in order to obtain lucrative government contracts. His whistleblowing helped bring light to the massive Petrobras
scandal.
During their wide-ranging conversation, Jane and Mr. Taylor discuss his upbringing, his decision to blow the whistle, the severe retaliation he faced for doing so (including an arrest in Croatia), and his current advocacy work for whistleblowers.

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In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner continues her talk with legendary Big Tobacco whistleblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. Dr. Wigand is the former Vice President of Research and Development at Brown and Williamson, a major tobacco company. He blew the whistle on Brown and Williamson’s deliberate misconduct, strategic cigarette engineering, and research manipulation that aimed to get, and keep, cigarette users addicted while concealing the truth of the product. His whistleblower story was portrayed in the 1999 movie The Insider.

In Part II of their conversation, Jane and Dr. Wigand discuss his whistleblower journey exposing the harmful practices of Big Tobacco, the retaliation he faced for doing so, and his life since his whistleblowing.

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In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with legendary Big Tobacco whistleblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. Dr. Wigand is the former Vice President of Research and Development at Brown and Williamson, a major tobacco company. He blew the whistle on Brown and Williamson's deliberate misconduct, strategic cigarette engineering, and research manipulation that aimed to get, and keep, cigarette users addicted while concealing the truth of the product. His whistleblower story was portrayed in the 1999 movie The Insider.

In Part I of their conversation, Jane and Dr. Wigand discuss his upbringing and his decision to blow the whistle after his startling discoveries about the practices of Big Tobacco.

Stay tuned next week for Part II of the Whistleblower of the Week interview with Dr. Jeffrey Wigand.

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, Jane speaks with Noel Engels. After spending over two decades working for the US government in intelligence, law enforcement, and military combat operations, Engels left his role as a Criminal Analyst at the Department of Homeland Security after filing a whistleblower complaint. Engels claims he was improperly removed from an investigation into human trafficking allegations against Utah County Attorney David O. Leavitt. He and Turner discuss the shocking details of that case and the retaliation he faced for speaking up.

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In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane
Turner speaks with Billie Winner-Davis and Victoria Turner about the trauma
experienced by family members of whistleblowers who face retaliation.

Billie is the mother of Reality Winner, the intelligence community whistleblower
imprisoned for leaking a NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts to
interfere with the 2016 election. Victoria is the daughter of Whistleblower of the
Week’s Jane Turner, who twice blew the whistle on misconduct at the FBI.
Billie, Victoria and Jane discuss the ways that whistleblower retaliation extends
to family members. They also speak about being inspired to advocate for
whistleblowers.

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with
former intelligence contractor Reality Winner. 

Motivated to act on a belief that the American public was not getting the full truth.
Winner leaked a top-secret NSA report on the Russian government’s attempts to hack a Florida-based voting software supplier ahead of the 2016 election to the news media.
Winner and Turner discuss her background, motivations, and how the Espionage Act
should be modified to give it more nuance. They also talk about the harsh sentence
handed down by the court and the impact her choices made on her life today. Winner
encourages would-be whistleblowers to use legal reporting channels.

Winner was the first person to be prosecuted, and later sentenced, under the Trump
administration for defying the Espionage Act. 

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In this episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner
speaks with Aris Danikas, a whistleblower and the founder and CEO of Liberty of
Speech.

Turner and Danikas discuss his journey from whistleblower, he blew the whistle
on human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by police in South Africa, to
whistleblower advocate.

They also speak about the upcoming conference Global Corruption And Public
Integrity - The Human Factor which features panel discussions on international
whistleblowing protection policies with a specific focus on the human toll
whistleblower retaliation has on whistleblowers and their families.

For more information on the conference (including how to register) visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-corruption-and-public-integrity-the-human-
factor-tickets-884026706677?aff=oddtdtcreator

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