CFTC Makes Its First Whistleblower Award
Posted 05/20/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Acting Chairman Mark Wetjen has just announced that the CFTC will issue its first award to a whistleblower under the agency’s Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower program. The whistleblower is expected to receive approximately $240,000 for providing information about violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.
According to Gretchen Lowe, the Acting Director of the CFTC’s...