Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 14, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

SEC settles whistleblower complaint against BATS Global Markets Inc. — The company agreed to pay $14 million to resolve charges that two exchanges it acquired last year did not accurately describe order types to customers.  MarketWatch

Supreme Court hears False Claims Act oral argument — A transcript of the oral argument heard by the Court yesterday in U.S. ex rel. Carter v. Kellog Brown & Root is available here:  Supreme Court

SEC adopts rules establishing regime for swap data warehouses — The new rules lay out a regulatory framework for “swap data repositories” like those operated by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp, a specialized warehouse that collects trillions of dollars worth of swaps trades, shares it with regulators, and disseminates aggregated data to the public.  Reuters

Settlement reached in federal suit against Maine CDC  —  A confidential settlement has been reached in a federal whistleblower lawsuit against Maine by two employees of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention who claim they were retaliated against after they refused to shred public documents.  Press Herald

FTC To Host Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week — Worried about tax scams? The FTC will conduct a week of events Jan. 26-30 to raise consumer awareness about the threat posed by tax identity theft, a scam that puts thousands of consumers at risk every year.  FTC