SEC Whistleblower Rules Archives

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Interviewed About SEC Whistleblower Application Process

An article in law.com’s Compliance Hot Spots newsletter titled SEC Tells Whistleblower: Wait a Minute reports that an anonymous whistleblower is seeking an order from the … Continued

Whistleblower Lawyer Will Speak at Corporate Whistleblowing Program

Whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman will speak at the Practicing Law Institute seminar Corporate Whistleblowing in 2019. To register, click here. Zuckerman will speak on a … Continued

Report Channel Stuffing and Earn an SEC Whistleblower Award

What is Channel Stuffing? Channel stuffing is an improper revenue recognition practice in which a company fraudulently inflates its sales and earnings by sending excessive … Continued

$4.5M SEC Whistleblower Award Underscores Incentives to Report Internally

$4.5M SEC Whistleblower Award Underscores Incentives to Report Internally On May 24, 2019, the SEC awarded $4.5M to a whistleblower whose disclosures to his employer … Continued

How to Report Accounting Fraud and Earn an SEC Whistleblower Award

SEC Targets Accounting Fraud in Financial Reporting In the early 2000s, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was abruptly reminded about the dangers of accounting … Continued

How to Report a Ponzi Scheme and Earn an SEC Whistleblower Award

Ponzi Schemes and the SEC Whistleblower Program Ten years have passed since the collapse of Bernard Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, which played a major role … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Attorney Participates in Forum About SEC Whistleblower Incentives

Whistleblower attorney Jason Zuckermanparticipated in a symposium at Fordham Law titled What Would We Do Without Them: Whistleblowers in the Era of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. The Fordham … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Participates in Online Debate About Whistleblower Incentives

SEC whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckermanrecently participated in an online discussion addressing whether whistleblowing measures should be strengthened. Zuckerman Law, which represents SEC whistleblowers worldwide, noted … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Attorney Speaks on Panel About Developments at SEC and CFTC Whistleblower Offices

SEC whistleblower attorney Jason Zuckerman will be speaking at the 2018 Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Annual Conference on a panel addressing developments at the SEC … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyers Comment on Proposed SEC Whistleblower Rules

In conjunction with colleagues at the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Government Accountability Project and Public Citizen, SEC whistleblower law firm Zuckerman Law helped prepare … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Attorney Will Speak at Bloomberg BNA Webinar About SEC and CFTC Whistleblower Reward Programs

SEC whistleblower attorney Jason Zuckermanwill speak at a BNA Bloomberg webinar on September 24, 2018 titled New Developments in the SEC and CFTC Whistleblower Programs: … Continued

SEC to Whistleblowers: Report Promptly and Expect a Minimal Award if You are Culpable

On September 14, 2018, the SEC awarded more than $1.5 million to a whistleblower, an amount that was “severely reduced” due to the whistleblower’s delay … Continued