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 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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