Eileen Foster Whistleblower

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The Department of Labor believed that Eileen Foster a whistleblower at Countrywide Financial was improperly terminated by Bank of America Corp. Foster was a vice president in charge of investigating fraud at Countrywide Financial who took her job seriously. A Countrywide employee in Boston contacted Eileen Foster with evidence of widespread loan fraud, foster investigated and confirmed the employee’s report and eventually shut down six Countrywide offices in Massachusetts. As a government investigator for this case, I feel that the employee did the right thing by contacting Foster (Fraedrich, Ferrell, & Jackson, 2011). I support the Department of Labor’s decision in Foster favor in October 2011. In this case, they tried to bribe Foster

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