The National Whistleblower Center ("NWC") urged the SEC to extend the comment deadline on a proposal amending the SEC whistleblower program.

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In the wake of a number of highly publicized corporate scandals, many of which involved both SEC enforcement and criminal prosecution (WorldCom, Adelphia, Tyco and Enron, among others), Congress enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010.

The SEC awarded $27 million to a whistleblower for providing information that led to a successful enforcement action.

The SEC announced on April 8, 2021 the departure of Jane Norberg, Chief of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower. Ms. Norberg had been with the Office nearly since its inception in 2012...

Less than one month after issuing a $22 million award, the SEC issued another multi-million dollar whistleblower award on September 20, 2016. The SEC's most recent award exceeded $4 million

On November 17, 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblower Office issued its Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Report.

Many federal, state, and local governmental employees may be eligible for awards pursuant to the SEC's whistleblower program under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Fiscal year 2020 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower program.

On August 2, 2021, the Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, issued a "Statement in Connection with the SEC's Whistleblower Program." In his Statement, Chair Gensler noted that he has ...

In its 2018 annual report to Congress, the SEC reported that it received the largest number of whistleblower tips and paid the most in rewards in program history.

On September 22, 2014, the SEC announced its largest whistleblower award to date under its Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty program.

Momentum for the SEC’s Dodd Frank whistleblower program is growing, and 2014 can be expected to bring continued expansion of the program and the number and types of whistleblower actions initiated by the SEC.

Federal agencies are continuing to prioritize and ramp up enforcement of whistleblower protection rules, underscoring the need for all companies – both public and private – to undertake routine compliance reviews.

The SEC's most recent award was a stunning $17 million, announced on June 9, 2016.

The SEC released its Fiscal Year 2013 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 15, 2013.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that an anonymous tipster was eligible to receive the first award paid under its Dodd-Frank-mandated whistleblower program.

The SEC awarded more than $7 million to a whistleblower for providing critical information related to an enforcement action for "serious financial abuses."

On March 28, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filed an amicus brief in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former in-house attorney against Vanguard Group (the "Company").

As Rachel Louise Ensign reported earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, the Securities Exchange Commission continues to probe obstacles to corporate employees blowing the whistle.