SEC Settlement Proves That When CCOs Spot A Problem, Silence Is Not Golden | Ulmer & Berne LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A long time ago, long before there existed any whistleblower statutes, I had a client – a CCO of a broker-dealer – who discovered some pretty funky trading at his firm. As he tells the story, when he went to see his boss (who was the owner of the firm) to report his troubling discovery, the owner sidled out from behind his desk, and casually unbuttoned his suitcoat, deliberately revealing the handgun he had strapped to his belt, and told my guy, basically, that he must be mistaken about those trades. My client took the not-s...