Show Me the Money – Large Rewards as an Indispensable Piece of the Whistleblower Enforcement System
Posted 06/15/12
By Gordon Schnell
In yet another corporate attempt to upend the surging success of the American whistleblower system, the US Chamber of Commerce recently proposed a cap on whistleblower rewards. Under the False Claims Act as well as the recently implemented whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, whistleblowers are entitled to between 15% and 30% of any government recovery. This has...