Whistleblowing, says Tom Devine, isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s existed for as long as there’s been an organized society. Devine, the 2025 recipient of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award, told attendees during the Tuesday morning General Session at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, that as long we have had an organized society, we have had people intent on breaking rules and people who believed in doing the right thing and calling out the rule breakers.