Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 20, 2017
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed — Coinbase is carrying out an insider trading investigation, fearing its own workers may have exploited its move into Bitcoin Cash, a spin-off of the original Bitcoin. BBC
Citation companies agree to $2.25M False Claims Act settlement — Citation Oil & Gas Corp. and its affiliates will pay $2.25 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they underpaid royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal lands in Wyoming, the Department of Justice announced yesterday. DOJ
Broker charged with giving special access to IPOs for cash kickbacks — Wall Street stockbroker Brian Hirsch faces SEC charges for illegally accepting kickbacks for giving certain customers preferential access to IPOs, enabling them to sell quickly and reap major trading profits in the secondary markets. SEC