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The image of the whistleblower has evolved from negative to positive. Recognising the importance of these bold truth-tellers, especially in the financial sector, has prompted governments to roll out legal protections. Even employers are acknowledging the contributions of their whistleblowers who speak up early, arresting future adversities.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded $3.2 million to four whistleblowers who analyzed complex accounting data in public filings and shared their expertise with SEC enforcement staff. On the same day, the SEC also issued five separate whistleblower award denials.
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important SEC enforcement developments from the past month,...
Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement. This client update provides an overvie...
Noon. >> laura: charlie. blowhard central. >> pretty extraordinary. look, when you're writing a crime novel or crime film there is something called plotting backwards where you start with the villain, you start with the crime and you work backwards. it seems like schiff did this when it came to the whistleblower and it came to this entire narrative of ukraine. he started with he wanted trump to be removed as president of the united states and he went through whatever needed to happen. changing the whistleblower rules. we have to point out that "the washington post" after this president was swo...