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Mitratech Holdings, Inc

DOJ Unveils Whistleblower Rewards Program: What Every Business Needs to Know

The Department of Justice has launched the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program to fight corporate crime. See how it impacts your organization. The U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has just rolled out the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 3. - Hunter College Whistleblower: Suit Was to End ‘Luxury Vacations, Fraud...

Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 3. February 23, 2023 - To those who say whistleblowers are only interested in the money a settlement can bring, meet Devin English. An assistant professor in the Department of...more

Allen Matkins

A Cloak Secrecy That Unbecomes The SEC

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Readers of this space will know that I was an early critic of the SEC's whistleblower program.  In 2016, for example, I observed that the SEC had awarded $136 million to only 37 individuals.  Earlier, I posted five theses...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

SEC Adopts Amendments To Whistleblower Program Rules

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to adopt numerous amendments to the rules governing its whistleblower program. The whistleblower program serves as a significant tool for the Commission to encourage...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

Rules of the Road: New CFTC Regulations Expand Whistleblower Bounty Program

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), published updated regulations Monday to bring its whistleblower bounty efforts more in line with the SEC’s. The rules were proposed last August and generally provide more...more

Allen Matkins

Five Propositions Concerning The SEC Whistleblower Program

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Congress, not the Securities and Exchange Commission, established the whistleblower program six years ago as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. As the program has awarded over $100 million...more

Morgan Lewis

CFTC Proposes Amendments to Whistleblower Awards Process and Anti-Retaliation Authority

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The amendments would make the CFTC’s whistleblower awards process more uniform with the SEC’s program and would enable the CFTC to bring enforcement actions against employers that retaliate against whistleblowers....more

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense

WSJ: Whistleblowers Claim That SEC Bounty Program Lacks Transparency

On May 25, 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an article reporting that tipsters have found it difficult to collect financial awards from the SEC after filing whistleblower claims....more

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