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False Claims Act Whistleblowers Help DOJ Recover $1.6 Billion in 2020
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced over $2.2 billion in recoveries from False Claims Act (FCA) cases in 2020, $1.6 billion of that s ...
SEC Whistleblower Program Surpasses Record Amount of Awards Granted in a Fiscal Year
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) broke new a record when it issued a whistleblower award of $600,000 to an individual, bringing the ...
Congress Must Fix The AML Whistleblower Law
This article was originally published by Law360. On Jan. 1, historic reforms of anti-money laundering, or AML, rules became the law of the land as a r ...
SEC Issues Five Whistleblower Awards Totaling Over $1.1 Million
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced five whistleblower awards totaling more than $1.1 million. According to a press rele ...
New House Whistleblower Rule Sends A Strong Message
As a new Congress convenes, the House of Representatives will have in place a new rule to protect the identity of whistleblowers who anonymously repor ...
New Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Law Becomes Effective After Congress Overrides Presidents Trump’s Veto of the NDAA
Yesterday, the whistleblower provisions of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (“AML Act”) became law. The AML Act was included as a major section of the N ...
IRS Whistleblower Program Recovers $472 Million from Tax Cheats
Today, the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office released its 2020 Annual Report documenting over $86 million in payments to 169 whistleblow ...
SEC Whistleblower Who Risked Personal Safety Receives $1.6 Million Award
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a whistleblower award of $1.6 million granted to an individual who risked their personal ...
Whistleblower Attorney Explains How to File Freedom of Information Act Requests
Whistleblower attorney Stephen Kohn, partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC), recently presented a webinar that detailed how to use the Freedom o ...
Journalists Call for Trump to Pardon Swiss Bank Whistleblower
As President Donald Trump heads into his last few weeks in office, he has started to hand out pardons. This has prompted calls for the President to pa ...
Auditor Receives SEC Whistleblower Award of More Than $300,000
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a whistleblower award of more than $300,000 issued to an individual who became aware of ...
Congress Must Pass the CFTC Fund Management Act to Ensure Whistleblowers are Supported
This week, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the CFTC Fund Management Act ...