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The DOJ and SEC Have Updated Their Foundational Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Resource
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published an updated guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practices ...
Amicus Brief Urges Supreme Court to Protect Whistleblowers from Retaliation for Disclosing Evidence of Crime from Workplace Computers
Yesterday, the whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto, LLP (KKC) filed an amicus curiae brief, in the case of Nathan Van Buren v. United Stat ...
Supreme Court Upholds SEC Penalty, but Tasks Ninth Circuit with Defining Wrongful “Profits”
On June 22, 2020, the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 decision in Liu v. Securities Exchange Commission, which reinforced and limited the SEC’s power to d ...
Local Lawmakers in Macau Undercut Key Whistleblower Protections
In response to an inquiry from a local lawmaker on the mechanisms available to whistleblowers, the local Commission Against Corruption in Macau stated ...
California Gains Momentum to Remove False Claims Act Tax Bar
California’s second attempt at establishing a state-based False Claims Act law which allows individuals to bring claims based on tax violations progre ...
The U.S. Merit System Protection Board: At Best Politicized and at Worst Non-Existent
The U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) is the sole venue to adjudicate whistleblower complaints and anti-retaliation claims brought by federal ...
Whistleblowers’ Vindicated in Novartis Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Case
Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced settlements with the global pharmaceutical ...
Strides in Anti-Corruption Efforts Are Rewarded in Ukraine
This month, the International Monetary Fund approved a multibillion-dollar lending program for Ukraine. This loan was made, in part, because Ukraine h ...
SEC Whistleblower Awarded $125,000 for Prompting Investigation
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded $125,000 to a whistleblower who alerted the SEC and another agency to a fraudulent scheme ...
Whistleblower Awarded $700,000 for Prompting SEC Investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded almost $700,000 to a whistleblower whose vital information helped the agency bring a successful e ...