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December 5, 2013

A whistleblower wants to take away private equity’s ‘crack cocaine’

“For almost a decade, many of the largest and most prominent private equity firms appear to have chosen to increase their bottom line without subjecting themselves to the oversight, limitations and expenses of the required broker dealer regulatory regime,” Thomas said. He estimates that private equity firms have made more than $2 billion dollars in...

December 2, 2013

Private Equity Has a Whistleblower Problem

Thomas says that he has no personal opinion on the appropriateness of transaction fees in general, but clearly believes that private equity firms have been violating securities laws by charging them without first registering as broker-dealers. And given how much money private equity firms are managing – not to mention those on the other sides...

December 1, 2013

Whistle-blower Tries to Shed Light on Private-Equity Transaction Fees

Crain's New York Business

Now a senior private-equity insider is trying to shine light on these little-known payments, which can constitute a sizable slug of revenue at the firms. The insider filed a whistle-blower complaint earlier this year with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he contends that private-equity firms are violating federal securities law because they are...

November 25, 2013

Is the SEC’s New Enforcement Zeal for Real?

SEC Chairman White publicly declared her intent to get tougher on Wall Street. Bloomberg columnist William D. Cohan believes [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] Deutsche Bank whistleblower suit may be the case that illustrates the new SEC administration’s position. Although Ben-Artzi’s complaint is confidential, his attorney, Jordan Thomas, a partner at [prior firm] and a former senior...

November 19, 2013

Awards, Legal Protection Incentivizing More Whistleblowers, SEC Reports

Corporate Secretary

In fiscal year 2013, the SEC has paid out $15 million to whistleblowers with information on securities fraud that lead to successful enforcement. The number of tips from whistleblowers in and outside of the US continues to grow each year. “Given the global nature of the financial markets, it makes sense that so many complaints...

November 18, 2013

Corporate Whistleblowers: Canadians, Chinese, & Brits, In SEC Whistleblower Program Report

International Business Times

Tips from international sources grew more than 18 percent from the last fiscal year, said whistle-blower specialist and attorney Jordan Thomas to International Business Times. “Given the global nature of the financial market, it’s not surprising that the SEC is seeing tips from outside the U.S.,” said Thomas to IBTimes on Monday. In fiscal 2013,...

November 18, 2013

What The SEC Whistleblower Report Means For Companies

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program saw an uptick in tips in its second full year up and running, according to an annual report to Congress. The agency received 3,238 tips in the 2013 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, up about 8% from 3,001 tips the year prior. The program launched near the...

October 31, 2013

With Sixth Payout, SEC Whistleblower Program Gains Steam

[Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] earlier this year commissioned a survey of financial industry professionals and found that 89 percent said they’d be willing to report wrongdoing to the SEC once they understood it could be done anonymously, that they were protected against retaliation and that they could receive a monetary award. The survey also found that...

October 3, 2013

The Anonymous SEC Whistleblower Award of $14M is a Game Changer

“Earlier awards involved small Ponzi-type schemes where there was little money [fine] to pay to a whistleblower. But this [$14 M] appears to be from a firm that is an ongoing concern,” he said. According to Thomas, who was a former Assistant Director and Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement at the...

October 2, 2013

Is SEC Whistleblower Program Underregulated?

Advertising by lawyers is subject to state bar rules – but not all of the ads inviting tips from potential SEC whistleblowers are by law firms. “If you look at the advertisements from some of these shady groups, they’re misleading,” said Thomas, who told me he’s seen non-lawyer ads trying to claim credit for whistleblower...

September 30, 2013

Shutdown, Bad Precedent for Debt Ceiling: Herrmann

September 19, 2013

JPMorgan Admits Responsibility over ‘London Whale’

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Whistleblowers Represented by Jordan Thomas Earn Largest SEC Whistleblower Awards in History

New York, NY (March 19, 2018) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will award a group of whistleblowers more than $83 million, the largest awards announced since the SEC Whistleblower Program was established seven years ago. Represented by Jordan Thomas, the whistleblowers’ tips led to a landmark enforcement action that resulted in Merrill...

Once an SEC Regulator, Now Thriving as a Lawyer for Whistleblowers

The New York Times

In a profile piece published in The New York Times, Whistleblower Practice Chair Jordan A. Thomas talks about his decision to travel “the road not taken,” and how it has benefited those in difficult professional positions. After dealing with a traumatic upbringing and seeking emancipation from his parents at the age of 15, Thomas went...

2019 Half-Time Report
The SEC Whistleblower Program: Where Wall Street Answers to Main Street

We are pleased to bring our clients and friends a midyear report to highlight key awards, trends and issues of import in the SEC whistleblower arena. It’s an exciting time for whistleblowers, and, by extension, investors at large. Since the program’s roll-out, the Commission has received nearly 30,000 tips from 119 countries. Most remarkable, as...

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NPR Features Jordan Thomas on Planet Money Podcast, “The Whistleblower Whisperer”

NPR Planet Money

Leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan Thomas was featured on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. In the episode “The Whistleblower Whisperer,” Jordan tells Planet Money co-host Jacob Goldstein about his work representing whistleblowers who provided evidence to the SEC that led to landmark enforcement actions against Wall Street’s biggest banks, including Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. Jordan also...

October 5, 2018

Jordan A. Thomas Named Whistleblower “Lawyer of the Year”

New York, NY – October 5, 2018 – [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] is pleased to announce that its leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan A. Thomas, a principal architect of the SEC Whistleblower Program who established the nation’s first law practice exclusively focused on SEC whistleblowers, has been named a 2018 “Lawyer of the Year” by the Taxpayers...

Named one of the top whistleblower practices/attorneys in the country by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and The New Yorker

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