10 Famous Corporate Whistleblowers in Publicly-Traded Companies

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1. August Walter Jr and BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) (2012)

August Walter Jr, a former BP employee filed a whistleblower suit against the company for not cleaning Mississippi’s shoreline after the Gulf oil spill. He refused misrepresenting data himself and alleged one of his bosses of manipulating data on the shoreline cleanup. BP responded by saying that it had already spent $13.6 billion to clean up 635 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline affected by the spill. In 2010 there was another Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killing 11 workers.

That being said, these were the 10 famous corporate whistleblowers in publicly-traded companies. 

10 Famous Corporate Whistleblowers in Publicly-Traded Companies

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