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April 2015 SEC Whistleblower Awards List
The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgment or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1...
Third Largest SEC Whistleblower Award Issued
Washington D.C., July 17, 2015: Today the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it paid a whistleblower award of more than $3 million. The company insider whose information helped the SEC crack a complex fraud, received the third highest...
Deadline for FOIA Appeals at SEC Extended to 90 days
On July 8, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a final rule regarding its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations. The SEC was considering imposing a 30-day time limit in which to file an appeal under FOIA. Instead,...
IRS Whistleblower Program Releases 2014 Report to Congress
On July 6, 2015 the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office released its Report to Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014. According to the report, in 2014 the Whistleblower Office received more claim submissions than in any other year. The...
Whistleblower Advocacy Group Campaigns For National Whistleblower Day
The National Whistleblower Center issued an alert today asking its Action Alert Network to push Congress to enact a National Whistleblower Day. The action alert is below: Demand Congress Pass National Whistleblower Appreciation Day! Take Action! Urge Congress To Make...
Senators Introduce Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act
Washington, D.C. June 18, 2015. Yesterday Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy introduced legislation to extend whistleblower protection for employees who provide information to the Department of Justice related to criminal antitrust violations. The Criminal Antitrust...
Sarajevo Whistleblower Week Provides Forum to Discuss Different Approaches to Whistleblower Protection
The following is a guest blog by Bojan Bajic.* Sarajevo Whistleblower Week (SWW) 2015, which occurred in the last week of May in Sarajevo was seen in a light of “clash” of two approaches: the first one representing pro-active American approach...
New Website Promotes Establishment of A National Whistleblower Day
Washington, D.C. June 12, 2015. Today the National Whistleblower Center, the nation’s leading whistleblower advocacy group, launched a website promoting the establishment of a National Whistleblower Day. The website, www.nationalwhistleblowerday.org, recites the history of the world’s first ever whistleblower law which...
Sepp Blatter’s Calls for Reform of FIFA Lack Substance
Sepp Blatter’s announced plan to step down as FIFA’s president to allow him the opportunity to remain “in a position to focus on profound reforms” flies in the face of the willful ignorance of the massive fraud and corruption he...
Tax Court Delivers Victory For Tax Whistleblowers
In a significant pro-whistleblower decision yesterday, the Tax Court in a decision 144 TC 15 (Whistleblower 21276-13W v. IRS) made it clear that the IRS couldn’t deny a whistleblower an award because they filed a request for an award after the...
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