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Two Individuals Share Whistleblower Award of More Than $450,000
May 23rd, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it will jointly award more than $450,000 to two individuals for a tip that led the agency to open a corporate accounting investigation and for their assistance once the investigation was underway. ...
Whistleblower Earns $3.5 Million Award for Bolstering Ongoing Investigation
May 17th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a whistleblower award of more than $3.5 million to a company employee whose tip bolstered an ongoing investigation with additional evidence of wrongdoing that strengthened the SEC’s case. The SEC noted that ...
Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers
April 13th, 2016
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information ...
CFTC Announces Whistleblower Award of More Than $10 Million
April 7th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced an award of more than $10 million to a whistleblower who provided key original information that led to a successful CFTC enforcement action. The award is the largest made by ...
SEC Awarding Nearly $2 Million to Three Whistleblowers
March 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the payment of almost $2 million to three whistleblowers. The largest of the three awards will go to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided original information that prompted the SEC to open its ...
Whistleblower says SEC awarded him $750,000 for Nyse tip
March 3rd, 2016
The founder of market data outfit Nanex says that he has been awarded $750,000 for a whistleblowing tip that resulted in the New York Stock Exchange getting slapped with a $5 million SEC fine. In 2012 the Securities and ...
CFTC Launches Whistleblower Program’s Website
January 22nd, 2016
New Website Improves Public Interface and Allows Users to Submit Tips and Apply for Monetary Awards The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched the CFTC Whistleblower Program’s new website, www.whistleblower.gov. The new website provides an improved interface that ...
SEC Awards Whistleblower More Than $700,000 for Detailed Analysis
January 18th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced a whistleblower award of more than $700,000 to a company outsider who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action. “The voluntary submission of high-quality analysis by industry experts ...
In defeat for UBS, Connecticut top court finds broad whistleblower rights
October 6th, 2015
Ex-UBS executive says was fired for complaints State law offers broader protection than US Constitution Connecticut’s highest court made it easier for private sector workers to bring whistleblower claims against their employers without fear of retaliation, ruling in a ...
Whistleblower Laws Fail to Curb Toshiba Accounting Fraud
July 23rd, 2015
One of the more intriguing questions stemming from the Toshiba Corp. accounting scandal is this: Where was the whistleblower? Top executives at the Japanese industrial conglomerate, which makes everything from refrigerators to nuclear reactors, padded pretax profit by at ...