Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 23, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

CFTC Strengthens Anti-Retaliation Protections for Whistleblowers and Enhances the Award Claims Review Process — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unanimously approved amendments to the CFTC’s Whistleblower Rules that will, among other things, strengthen the CFTC’s anti-retaliation protections for whistleblowers and enhance the process for reviewing whistleblower claims. CFTC

U.S. Accuses Massachusetts Hedge Fund Manager of Fraud — A Massachusetts hedge fund manager has been arrested and accused of misappropriating millions of dollars from investors and engaging in a Ponzi-like scheme, U.S. authorities said. Yasuna Murakami, who managed Cambridge, Massachusetts-based MC2 Capital Management LLC, was arrested in Vermont on Saturday and charged in a criminal complaint with wire fraud, according to papers unsealed in federal court in Boston on Monday. Reuters

FBI Whistleblower and Former Undercover Agent Talks the Comey Firing, the Russia Investigation, and more. — Mike German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program. For 16 years, German was an FBI special agent who worked white collar crime and domestic terrorism. Twelve of those years he spent in deep cover, infiltrating neo-Nazi and anti-government militia groups planning attacks on American soil. In 2002, German reported serious mismanagement of a counterterrorism undercover case he was assigned to. At the time, FBI Director Robert Mueller asked agents to come forward if they witnessed anything unethical or unlawful during counterterrorism cases. German did, reporting an illegal wiretap, and immediately was retaliated against by his superiors. ACLU