In early November 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it awarded two individual whistleblowers a total of $4.3 million. In the first whistleblower case, the SEC paid over $3.6 million for the individual’s provision of critical information that alerted the SEC to fraudulent conduct taking place abroad.  The SEC noted that the...Read More

Reasons to Hire an SEC Whistleblower Lawyer The Securities and Exchange Commission has, since 2010, maintained an Office of the Whistleblower.  Its purpose is to incentivize individuals through monetary payments (bounties up to 30% of recovered monies by the SEC in excess of $1 million) to come forward and report, including anonymously, violations of the...Read More