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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s whistleblower awards for the 2025 fiscal year demonstrate an alarming drop in whistleblower compensation, as demonstrated by the award orders published by the SEC. Aside from 122 denials and six orders omitting award...

However, when fraud is preemptively thwarted by the SEC under the whistleblower program, this incentive system begins to fall apart. Under the SEC’s current rules, a whistleblower is more likely to receive an award if they allow a fraud to...

Whistleblowers seeking financial rewards from the SEC are running into a steep wall of procedural hurdles, and federal appeals courts aren’t inclined to offer lifelines.

IRS Whistleblower Office released a statement recognizing the critical role of whistleblowers in detecting US tax fraud.

On June 24, two whistleblower law firms, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav, working together at the Tax Whistleblower Attorney Group (TWAG), announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had issued a $20 million whistleblower...

In recent years, airline manufacturers, most notably Boeing, have repeatedly made headlines for dangerous life threatening practices, and whistleblowers are often the reason the public has become aware of them.  Despite the risks of speaking out against airline safety violations,...

On June 13, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee urging for the provisions of the bipartisan IRS Whistleblower Improvement Act to be included in the budget reconciliation bill being debated in the Senate....

On June 10, a coalition of more than 20 technology safety and whistleblower advocacy groups sent a letter to Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, calling for the passage of the AI...

On May 22, The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition) sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force calling for the continuation of strong enforcement of crypto fraud. The letter, which was drafted with the assistance of Andrew...

On May 15, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan AI Whistleblower Protection Act, which provides anti-retaliation protections to AI insiders reporting safety concerns to regulators or supervisors. In a new article for Tech Policy Press, Sophie Luskin, Senior Tech...