Whistleblower begins its second season investigating the real-life David vs. Goliath stories of heroic people who put everything on the line to stop illegal and often dangerous wrongdoing when major corporations or individuals rip off the government and U.S. taxpayers. The cases examined this season represent potential fraud totaling more than $2 billion. The series takes viewers behind the scenes as these unsung heroes step up and risk everything to expose unethical greed and activities as they try to protect those who are most vulnerable to fraudulent scams. Alex Ferrer returns as host.
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Whistleblower begins its second season investigating the real-life David vs. Goliath stories of heroic people who put everything on the line to stop illegal and often dangerous wrongdoing when major corporations or individuals rip off the government and U.S. taxpayers. The cases examined this season represent potential fraud totaling more than $2 billion. The series takes viewers behind the scenes as these unsung heroes step up and risk everything to expose unethical greed and activities as they try to protect those who are most vulnerable to fraudulent scams. Alex Ferrer returns as host.
Episodes
Chicago PD: Breaking The Code Of Silence
Season 2, Episode 1 Unrated CC HD CC SD
In the second season premiere episode, Alex Ferrer interviews a whistleblower who exposed corrupt officers who stole from drug dealers and planted drugs on innocent people.
Polygamy, Power and Profits: The Case Against the Kingstons
Season 2, Episode 2 Unrated CC HD CC SD
When a college student helps his girlfriend escape the influence of her polygamist family, he begins to suspect that they are committing massive fraud & they decide to take their evidence to the FBI. Host Alex Ferrer investigates these allegations of tax and money laundering by members of the Kingston Clan.
SeaWorld: The Case Against Captivity
Season 2, Episode 3 Unrated CC HD CC SD
John Hargrove, a former SeaWorld senior killer whale trainer, was entranced with whales ever since he first visited the theme park as a child. But after years of working at SeaWorld, he grew to believe that the forced captivity of the whales resulted in a host of serious and dangerous physical and behavioral issues. Now, he's decided to speak out and quit the job he once loved.
Doctors vs Midwives: Dangerous Deliveries / Cremation, Kickbacks and Corruption: The Case Against Abanks Mortuary ( Unrated )
Season 2, Episode 4 Unrated CC HD CC SD
Host Alex Ferrer investigates the dangerous insurance fraud at Indiana University Health & HealthNet, and another case about kickbacks at a mortuary in Birmingham, AL. In the episode’s second story, Barry Taul, a funeral home director turned embalmer, uncovers a kickback scheme that was costing taxpayers more than two million dollars.
Billion Dollar Back Surgery Scam: The Patients in Pain and Peril
Season 2, Episode 5 Unrated CC HD CC SD
Host Alex Ferrer uncovers the secrets of the billion-dollar back surgery scheme, one of the most complex, and dangerous, schemes to defraud workers' compensation insurance in California state history. At the center of the scheme were doctors who were being paid large kickbacks to steer patients into spinal fusion surgery at specific hospitals, including many cases where the procedures were medically unnecessary.
Bunny’s War: The Case Against The US Army Corps of Engineers / Opioid Lollipops: The Case Against Cephalon
Season 2, Episode 6 Unrated CC HD CC SD
Host Alex Ferrer examines the case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a second story about a pharmaceutical company that illegally marketed addictive opioids for treatments not approved by the Federal Drug Administration, resulting in serious danger to patients, which allegedly including a number of fatalities.
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Networks
CBSNetworks
Audio
EnglishAudio
Subtitles
English (CC)Subtitles
Released year
2019Released year
Genres
OtherGenres
Duration
6 episodes (4 h 12 min)Duration
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