# US Attorney Preet Bharara's remarks at Stern are highlighted

1 School News March 31, 2016 ![Ethical Systems Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/ethicalsystems.jpg?itok=JGFDsLHG)>

Excerpt from [Ethical Systems](http://ethicalsystems.org/content/combating-culture-minimalism-preet-bharara) -- "Bharara highlighted that collectively, as a society, we see the difficulty of speaking up against higher authorities. In response, there are long-standing legal protections- as early as 1863- when the False Claims Act was promulgated to motivate reporting of cases of fraud against the government, and more recent laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the Dodd-Frank Act which provide whistleblower protection."

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