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In this week of new bank bailouts (following Silicon Valley Bank’s), a bipartisan group of five Senators has urged common sense improvements to the SEC Whistleblower laws.  These Senators emphasize the “crucial role of whistleblowers” in protecting both investors and taxpayer funds.

  • The SEC Whistleblower Reform Act of 2023, co-sponsored by Sens. Grassley, Warren, Collins, Warnock, and Mastro, removes some predictable roadblocks to an effective SEC Whistleblower program.  To summarize from Sen. Grassley’s release, the Act would:
    1. Protect whistleblowers from retaliation if they report violations only in the workplace.  Currently, whistleblowers are protected only once they report misconduct directly to the SEC or certain other officials.
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As the anxious public yearns for vaccines, treatments, and protections from the virus, the SEC has warned of a “substantial potential for fraud relating to COVID-19. The SEC’s enforcement actions against 23 companies are just the start, as more fraud will undoubtedly be uncovered.

Whistleblowers are critical to the SEC’s efforts to stop COVID-19 fraud.  The SEC Office of the Whistleblower is authorized to pay monetary awards to whistleblowers whose information leads to an order of sanctions of $1 million or more.

Our firm’s lawyers are uniquely suited to bring attention to meritorious SEC whistleblower claims.  Our firm has the only former Senior Officer and Regional Director of the SEC who represents SEC whistleblowers, Walter Jospin.  We have the ability and experience to evaluate a potential Whistleblower claim and determine if it will interest the SEC Division of Enforcement.  If it does not, the case is lost.  Few lawyers have that experience.

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