ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Responsibility Matters: What to Know and How to Do It Whistleblowing Whistleblowing is a difficult topic, often because people are reluctant to do it out of uncertainty or unease or, worse, fear of...
Category: securities fraud
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Whistleblower Program Awards The Securities and Exchange commission has just doled out it’s second-largest award ever, a whopping $17 million, to a Wall Street employee who provided insider...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The SEC wants to alert the individuals receiving compensation from insurance companies after natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, oil spills, and fires that they may be targets of investment fraud....
SEC Issues Clarifications on Whistleblower Protections
August 11, 2015
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance this week regarding their whistleblower protections. This reinforced their stance that whistleblowers are protected against retaliation even if they...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Securities and Exchange Commission paid out $3 million to a whistleblower who helped the commission crack a complex fraud case. The whistleblower, a company insider, received the third-highest award...