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Inside-Out: CFTC Enhances Whistleblower Award For Internal Reporting
On May 6th, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced that it made a whistleblower award of approximately $1.5 million to an individual whistleblower. The individual provided...
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Regulators Offer Insights Into SEC, CFTC, and OSHA Whistleblower Program’s...
On July 16, 2019, three prominent whistleblower law regulators spoke at PLI’s Corporate Whistleblowing in 2019, which was co-chaired by Orrick partners Mike Delikat and Renee Phillips. With the...
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Can You Hear The Whistle Blowing?: CFTC Releases 2019 Annual Report
The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) administer whistleblower claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. While the SEC has jurisdiction to...
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The Whistle Keeps Blowing: SEC Whistleblower Office Releases Its 2019 Annual...
The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower (“OWB”) released its Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report (the “Report”) to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 15, 2019. The Report analyzes...
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CFTC Whistleblower Program Ends the Year with Another Seven-Figure Bounty Award
On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it will award more than $1 million to an individual whose tip helped expose a securities fraud scheme and...
View ArticleIRS Reports Record $312 Million In Whistleblower Bounties
In February, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released its FY 2018 Annual Report and announced a record-breaking year for the agency’s whistleblower program. Overall, whistleblowers provided...
View ArticleCan You Hear The Whistle Blowing Outside: CFTC Makes First Ever Whistleblower...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced earlier this month that it had awarded more than $2 million to an individual who provided “critical information through independent...
View ArticleTake It Outside: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds That Internal Reporting Is...
In the Supreme Court’s first decision interpreting Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower retaliation provisions, the Court unanimously held that internal whistleblowing is not protected under Dodd-Frank. The...
View ArticleCan You Hear The Whistle Now? SEC Proposes New Rule Amendments To Bolster the...
On June 28, the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) voted to propose amendments to its whistleblower program. As SEC Chair Jay Clayton explained, the proposed changes would...
View ArticleThe SEC Ends the Summer with Another Bountiful Award of over $54 Million to...
On September 6, the SEC issued awards totaling more than $54 million to two whistleblowers who provided critical information and continued assistance to the agency in an enforcement action. This large...
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