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Snowden Wins "Alternative Nobel Prize"

By Marlene Koury The Right Livelihood Award Foundation Honorary Prize goes to Edward Snowden for "revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance."  He was jointly awarded the prize along with Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, with whom Snowden collaborated to publish his findings on NSA surveillance. The prize is awarded by Sweden's Right Livelihood Award Foundation each year "to honor...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 23, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team SEC fines Wells Fargo Advisors -- The $5 million dollar fine is in response to a Wells Fargo broker using private customer data to make stock trades.  Washington Post Joseph Gordon-Leavitt to play Snowden? -- The actor is apparently in talks to play Edward Snowden in an upcoming Oliver Stone movie detailing Snowden’s path from blowing the whistle to asylum in Russia.  

SEC Announces Record $30M Whistleblower Award

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an expected whistleblower award of more than $30 million.  It will be the largest award to date under the SEC whistleblower program established in 2012 under the Dodd-Frank Act.  It surpasses the $14 million award the SEC made to great fanfare roughly a year ago.  The new award will also be the fourth award to a...