Category: SEC Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Primary Federal Whistleblower Laws And Programs  Whistleblower Awards Available Under Each Whistleblower Program Whistleblowers Also Protected From Employer Retaliation The federal government has a variety of whistleblower programs rewarding Americans for coming forth with information of fraud or false claims against the government.  Each of these programs also […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Adopts New Rules And Procedural Changes  Against A Backdrop Of Increasing Whistleblower Rewards Fiscal Year 2021 On Record-Breaking Pace For Whistleblower Rewards On November 5, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced several rule changes for whistleblower cases under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Tips Up 126% 2020 CFTC Awards Double 2019 Number Whistleblower Awards Now Total Over $120 Million According to a report released on November 2, 2020, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saw a 126% increase in whistleblower tips during 2020. For the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Oversees Options Trading CFTC Finds Broker Defrauded 25,000 Customers  Fines Broker Over $13.8 Million The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on October 13, 2020 rdered a broker to pay over $13.8 million[1] in restitution, disgorged profits and civil penalties as the result of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Polices Bitcoin Trading Enforcement Action Charges Broker With False Representations  Customers Lose $7.4 Million In Bitcoin Investments On October 2, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ordered a broker to pay $7.4 million[1] in restitution to two investors for making fraudulent representations […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New SEC Rules Favor Whistleblowers Over $500 Million Has Been Rewarded To Whistleblowers Whistleblowers Help SEC Recover Over $2.5 Billion Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced several rule changes expanding the rewards rules for persons who blow the whistle to the SEC on securities fraud.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues Massive Order Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Trades In Precious Metals And Futures Insiders Rewarded For Assisting Enforcement On September 29, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a massive $920 million settlement of a case[1] involving hundreds of thousands of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Whistleblower Office Has Recovered $2.5 Billion 87 Individual Whistleblowers Have Been Rewarded Even Limited Information May Result In An Award The Whistleblower Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), Pub. L. 111-203, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Extend Enforcement Actions Fraudulent Trading Schemes May Violate Bank Secrecy Laws  Insiders Rewarded For Assistance And Information The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) polices the commodities and futures markets and have extended their policing power to enforcing bank secrecy laws that commodities brokers […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes  Insider Rewarded $9 Million For Information Commodities and futures trading constitute an enormous financial marketplace and wherever hundreds of billions of dollars trade hands every year, there’s bound to be fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]