Contact us today to find out the strategies that we have successfully employed to secure whistleblower awards for our whistleblower clients.
Recently the CFTC awarded $200 million to a whistleblower for providing information concerning the manipulation of financial benchmarks used by global banks.
The qui tam provision of the False Claims Act authorizes awards to whistleblowers that disclose fraud on the government. Qui tam whistleblowers have enabled the federal government to recover more than $70 billion.
Hiring an experienced and effective whistleblower rewards attorney can increase the likelihood of securing a reward for your whistleblowing and can enable you to report fraud anonymously.
We have secured SEC whistleblower awards for seven whistleblowers, and the courageous whistleblowers that we represent have helped stop more than $1 billion in Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent investment schemes. The orders announcing those awards noted our clients’ significant assistance to SEC staff that led to SEC enforcement actions and enabled the SEC to conserve resources.
Our success representing whistleblowers at the SEC has enabled us to focus on a limited number of claims that are likely to result in enforcement actions and result in the payment of awards.
To learn more about whistleblower rewards or whistleblower protections, call the whistleblower rewards lawyers at Zuckerman Law for a free confidential consultation at 202-262-8959, or click here. We represent whistleblowers worldwide.
Before retaining an SEC whistleblower attorney, ask about their track record representing whistleblowers. Some aspects of our experience that set us apart and enabled us to obtain awards for our clients include:
Since 2012, the SEC has awarded more than $1.2 billion to whistleblowers. The SEC Whistleblower Program allows whistleblowers to submit anonymous tips to the SEC if represented by an attorney. A whistleblower can be eligible for an award for reporting any violation of the federal securities laws, including:
Under SEC’s Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower reward program, whistleblowers who voluntarily provide original information to the SEC can receive between 10 percent and 30 percent of the sanctions recovered by the SEC. The largest SEC whistleblower awards to date are:
See our column in Forbes: One Billion Reasons Why The SEC Whistleblower-Reward Program Is Effective.
Download our free guide to the SEC whistleblower program:
If you have information that you would like to report to the SEC Whistleblower Office, contact the experienced SEC whistleblower lawyers at Zuckerman Law for a free, confidential consultation.
See our MarketWatch column: More than 33,000 tips, $2.5 billion in financial remedies and $500 million in awards to investors — the SEC’s whistleblower program turns 10 years old today
Whistleblowers have enabled the federal government to recover more than $60 billion. Call us to find out if you may have a qui tam case.
Several whistleblower protection and whistleblower retaliation laws protect whistleblowers reporting fraud and other wrongdoing to their employer or the government, including the following:
In 2019, the National Law Review awarded Jason Zuckerman its “Go-To Thought Leadership Award” for his analysis of developments in whistleblower law. We represent whistleblowers nationwide.