Securities Fraud Whistleblower Archives

Whistleblower Attorney Will Address BNA Bloomberg Webinar About Trying Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Retaliation Cases

Whistleblower attorney Jason Zuckerman will speak at a BNA Bloomberg webinar titled “Trying Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Retaliation Cases” on Thursday, April 20, 2017 from 12:00 PM to … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Program: Exposing Insider Trading

SEC’s Increased Focus on Insider Trading On March 23, 2017, a New York federal judge granted a temporary asset freeze against the assets of a … Continued

Securities Fraud Enforcement Action Prompts the Question: What Was the Company Smoking?

On March 9, 2017, the SEC charged a California-based marijuana company, Medbox, with securities fraud for falsely reporting “record” revenue numbers to investors and claiming … Continued

5 Tips for SEC Whistleblowers to Get SEC Whistleblower Awards

Qualifying for an SEC Whistleblower Award: Lessons Learned from SEC Whistleblower Award Determinations The SEC Whistleblower Program has issued more than $1.9 billion in … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Program: What is the SEC Form TCR?

What is the SEC Whistleblower Program’s Form TCR? The SEC Form TCR (Tip, Complaint or Referral) is the form whistleblowers and their attorneys use … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Quoted About Potential Supreme Court Nominee

SEC whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer offered is perspective on potential Supreme Court nominees in a Bloomberg BNA article entitled Trump’s SCOTUS Picks Not Seen as Investor Friendly. … Continued

Court Rules for In-House Counsel Whistleblower

A decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. clarifies that federal law permitting in-house lawyers to … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Dallas Hammer Quoted About SEC Whistleblower Program

A Bloomberg BNA article titled SEC Whistle-Blower Awards: No Guarantees quotes SEC whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer’s insights about factors that cause an SEC whistleblower reward claim to succeed or fail. … Continued

SEC Advocates Broad Construction of Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protection Law

SEC Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Retaliation Case The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) continues to advocate a broad construction of the anti-retaliation … Continued

Pro Se Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower Prevails in Jury Trial

Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Obtains Substantial Damages An article in Corporate Counsel titled How to Help a Whistleblower tells the story of Dr. Perez, a Sarbanes Oxley … Continued

SEC Orders Company to Pay $500K For Whistleblower Retaliation

SEC Enforcement Action for Whistleblower Retaliation On September 29, 2016, the SEC ordered International Game Technology (IGT) to pay a $500,000 penalty for terminating … Continued

SEC Enforcement Director Touts Success of SEC Whistleblower Program

In a speech to whistleblower lawyers about the SEC’s Whistleblower Program, SEC Enforcement Director Andrew Ceresney praised the early success of the Whistleblower Program. He … Continued

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