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Joint Whistleblowers Receive $12 Million SEC Whistleblower Award
On October 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a $12 million award to three joint whistleblowers who voluntarily provided the agency with original information that led to a successful enforcement action. Through the SEC Whistleblower Program, qualified...
$74 Million IRS Whistleblower Award Shows Effect of Recent Reforms
In recent years, the IRS Whistleblower Program has faced criticism for falling award payouts and lengthy processing times. While meager annual award payouts hovered around $37 million throughout 2021 and 2022, the average time to process an award soared 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 at the Tax Whistleblower Attorney Group (TWAG), announced that two tax whistleblower awards totaling over $14.3 million were paid to...
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 is co-chaired by Former Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Allison Herren Lee and former SEC Enforcement Attorney Andrew Feller.
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 whistleblowers are not eligible to receive whistleblower awards based on proceeds collected by the government in a voluntary bankruptcy proceeding. ...
Need for Whistleblower Protections in Artificial Intelligence Industry Discussed in Senate Judiciary Hearing
On September 17, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law held a hearing titled “Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspective.” Led by committee chair Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the hearing sought to understand how and...
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 (IRS) for providing information about a large-scale tax evasion scheme which led to the IRS recovering $263 million from a...
IRS Whistleblower Office Updates Organizational Structure as Part of Reform Efforts
On September 11, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office announced that the Initial Claim Evaluation (ICE) team from the Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE) had joined the Whistleblower Office as part of its new organizational structure. The restructuring is part...
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 to pay $240,000 to settle charges that they violated a whistleblower protection rule through the use of restrictive language in...
Former SEC Enforcement Attorney Joins Whistleblower Firm
On September 5, the whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC) announced that former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement attorney Andrew Feller was joining the firm as Senior Special Counsel. According to KKC, Feller will “be a key advocate...
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