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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Halliburton Whistleblower Tony Menendez

Posted  04/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Tony Menendez, the former accounting executive at Halliburton who the company publicly "outed" after he complained to the SEC about what he saw as the company's multi-billion dollar accounting transgressions.  An in-depth profile of Menendez published last week by ProPublica and Marketplace provides tremendous insight into what...

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SEC Awards Compliance Officer Whistleblower Over A Million Dollars

Posted  04/23/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The SEC announced an award of more than a million dollars to a compliance officer who had a reasonable basis to believe that disclosure to the SEC was necessary to prevent imminent misconduct from causing substantial financial harm to the company or investors. This is the second award the SEC has made to an employee with internal audit or compliance responsibilities, after the...

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Rewards,

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SEC Charges KBR with Violating Whistleblower Protection Rule

Posted  04/2/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The SEC yesterday announced its first enforcement action against a company for including improperly restrictive language in confidentiality agreements that had the potential to stifle whistleblowers.  According to the SEC, Houston-based global technology and engineering firm KBR Inc. violated Dodd-Frank Rule 21F-17 whistleblower protections by requiring witnesses in internal...

Tagged in: Employment Issues, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

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SEC Awards Half a Million to Whistleblower under Exception to Dodd-Frank

Posted  03/5/15
By The C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The SEC announced a whistleblower award between $475,000 and $575,000 to a former company officer who reported original, high-quality information about the company's securities fraud.  The award is notable because it is the first award to an officer who learned about a fraud through another employee rather than firsthand. Under Dodd-Frank, officers, directors, trustees, or...

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Department of Defense Moves To Bar Anti-Whistleblower Confidentiality Provisions

Posted  02/12/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Not all companies have embraced the rise of whistleblowers as a vehicle to root out fraud within their ranks.  In fact, many companies have gone in the exact opposite direction, doing everything they can to discourage whistleblowers from stepping forward.  One popular mechanism a growing number of companies are using to silence would-be whistleblowers are so-called...

Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud, Employment Issues, FCA Federal, Legislation and Regulation News, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program,

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SEC Releases Whistleblower Report for 2014: The Best Year Yet

Posted  11/20/14
By Marlene Koury The SEC just released its 2014 Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program report reflecting a record year in both the rewards it has paid and the tips it has received. The SEC issued whistleblower awards to more people in 2014 than in all previous years combined. And the SEC received more than 3,500 tips from whistleblowers, up by 20% from the previous couple of years. It received tips from every state and...

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California Court Follows More Expansive Take on Who Can Be an SEC Whistleblower

Posted  11/6/14
By Jason Enzler A California federal district court ruled last week that a whistleblower is not required to report allegations of violations of the U.S. securities laws to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in order to qualify for protection under the Dodd-Frank Act.  In the case of Connolly v. Wolfgang Remkes, Case No. 5:14-CV-01344 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 28, 2014), the court made that decision -- and...

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SEC Announces Record $30M Whistleblower Award

Posted  09/23/14
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...

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