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5th Circuit Rules that SEC Whistleblowers are Ineligible for Awards in Certain Bankruptcy Proceedings
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Samherji vs. Odee: Art, Accountability, and the Limits of Parody
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CFTC Whistleblower Program Doomed Without Congressional Intervention
Since its enactment in 2010, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Program has successfully uncovered and prosecuted financial wrongdoing...
CFTC Whistleblower Program in Danger of Collapse as Funding Fix is Set to Expire
For the past several years, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Program has faced a funding crisis. An emergency...
5th Circuit Rules that SEC Whistleblowers are Ineligible for Awards in Certain Bankruptcy Proceedings
On August 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Barr v. SEC, that two...
Samherji vs. Odee: Art, Accountability, and the Limits of Parody
Samherji, Iceland's largest fishing company, is suing Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson, an Icelandic art student known as Odee. The lawsuit concerns...
Billie Winner-Davis and Victoria Turner
In this special episode of the Whistleblower of the Week podcast, host Jane Turner speaks with Billie Winner-Davis and Victoria Turner...
Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Case Leads to $3.85 Million False Claims Act Settlement
On August 20, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Intrepid U.S.A. Inc., headquartered in Dallas, and various wholly-owned subsidiaries...
City of Los Angeles to Pay $38.2 Million over Whistleblower Allegations of Defrauding HUD
On August 26, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California announced that the City of Los Angeles agreed...
Leading Whistleblower Firm Launches Securities and Commodities Whistleblower Practice Group
leading whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC) announced its new Securities and Commodities Whistleblower Practice Group. This group...
SEC Fines Firms for Impeding Whistleblowing in Confidentiality Agreements
On September 5, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that a broker-dealer and two affiliated investment advisers agreed...
CFTC Issues $1 Million Crypto Whistleblower Award
On August 8, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a $1 million whistleblower award issued to an individual who...
Trafigura Whistleblower Disclosure Leads to $55 Million Enforcement Action by CFTC
On June 17, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Trafigura Holding LLC agreed to pay $55 million...
John Deere to Pay $10 Million to Settle SEC’s FCPA Charges
On September 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Deere & Company, which does business as John...
Gunvor to Pay $661 Million to Resolve FCPA Bribery Case
On March 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that international commodities trading company Gunvor pled guilty and agreed to...
TWAG Attorneys Announce $14.3 Million in Tax Whistleblower Awards
On October 1st, the law firms of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav, working together...
IRS Whistleblowers Awarded $74 Million as Advocates Continue to Call for Reforms to Program
On September 18, the Washington Post reported that three anonymous whistleblowers were awarded $74 million by the Internal Revenue Service...
AML Whistleblower Program has Received Tips “Highly Relevant to Many of Treasury’s Top Priorities”
The recently established Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Program has “received over 270 unique tips” and “many of the tips received...
AML Whistleblowers Can Play a Key Role in Exposing the Illicit Side of Sports
Without the hurdle of centralized legislation governing the industry, the sports domain has attracted sophisticated money laundering schemes to achieve...
This World Wildlife Day Whistleblowing Bridges Digital Innovation with Animal Conservation
In our seemingly tech-obsessed age of constant connectivity warring with our disjointment from the outside world, many tend to focus...
Whistleblower Rewards Essential to Combat Environmental Crime
World-renowned law professor, Masaki Iwasaki, argues that countries should “Reward whistleblowers who expose environmental crimes,” in a recent article in...
Marist Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Whistleblowers
We will publish the results of this Marist Poll until the U.S. congress passes all of the laws necessary to fully protect and incentivize whistleblowers.
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OSC Plans to Increase Transparency Around Whistleblower Disclosures
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Senate Discusses Whistleblower Allegations about Unaccompanied Children Program
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Leading Whistleblower Attorney Addresses UN Human Rights Council
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