Whistleblower Rewards Archives

Swap Reporting CFTC Whistleblower Lawyers

Swap Dealer Disclosure and Reporting Requirements Under the Dodd-Frank Act, swap dealers and major swap participants are required to comply with certain disclosure, … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Turns Down $8.25M Whistleblower Award

Eric Ben-Artzi, a former risk officer at Deutsche Bank, blew the whistle on colleagues’ fraudulently inflating the value of the bank’s portfolio of credit … Continued

Whistleblower Disclosures to Federal Agencies Are Protected Under the Work Product Doctrine

Magistrate Judge Nita Stormes’ ruling in BofI Federal Bank v. Erhart suggests that the attorney work product doctrine can protect whistleblowers’ confidential disclosures to government … Continued

SEC Enforcement Action Clarifies Broad Scope of Anti-Gag Provision in Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Rules

Recognizing whistleblowers’ vital role in combating securities fraud, the SEC has issued a cease-and -desist order against BlueLinx Holdings Inc. for using overly broad … Continued

Whistleblower Lawyer Will Speak at BNA Bloomberg Webinar on New Developments in Whistleblower Law

Whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman will speak at a BNA Bloomberg on New Developments in Whistleblower Law on September 27, 2016 at 1:00 PM ET. Zuckerman is privileged … Continued

CFTC Announces Second Whistleblower Award in 2016 as the Agency’s Whistleblower Reward Program Picks Up Steam

By Dallas Hammer Today the CFTC announced it has awarded a whistleblower $50,000 for information provided through its whistleblower award program. In 2010, the … Continued

IRS Whistleblower Program Paid More than $103M to Whistleblowers in FY2015

IRS Reports Increase in Whistleblower Awards The IRS Whistleblower Program’s annual report for FY 2015 reveals that the IRS paid more than $103 million to … Continued

Whistleblower Rewards and Protections for Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

What Laws Protect and Reward Whistleblowing About Cybersecurity? A cybersecurity whistleblower can qualify for an SEC whistleblower award, a False Claims Act qui tam … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Zuckerman Quoted About SEC Whistleblower Award for Independent Analysis

A National Law Journal article entitled “Expert’s $700K Award Signals Return to SEC Whistleblower Program Roots” quotes whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman about the significance … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Program Not Limited to Corporate Insiders

SEC Whistleblower Awards for Independent Analysis On January 15, 2016, the SEC announced a whistleblower award of $700,000 to a company outsider who conducted a … Continued

Jason Zuckerman Named a Top Washington DC Whistleblower Lawyer

SEC and SOX Whistleblower Attorney Named a Top Washington DC Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Zuckerman, founding partner of leading whistleblower law firm Zuckerman Law, was named a … Continued

SEC Enforcement Action Portends Rewards for Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

Cybersecurity SEC Enforcement Action The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that it had settled charges that investment adviser R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management … Continued

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