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Senator Grassley Announces the Creation of a Congressional Whistleblower Caucus

Labaton Sucharow

Last week, we provided an update on Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) efforts to strengthen the IRS Whistleblower Program and expedite the processing of IRS Whistleblower claims. Now, Senator Grassley – a longtime advocate for whistleblower rights – has announced a new plan to create a “Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus,” to “help bring attention to the...

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OIG Report Praises SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow

The internal watchdog for federal government agencies, including the SEC, is the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), which conducts audits and investigations of the SEC to “promote integrity, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the Commission’s programs and operations.” In keeping with this mission, the OIG has issued its first audit report on the SEC...

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SEC Orders Show Importance of Complying with Whistleblower Program Rules

Labaton Sucharow

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the SEC recently denied two individuals’ applications for whistleblower awards because they had not met the requirements of the SEC Whistleblower Program rules. In the first case, an anonymous woman claimed that she had provided information that helped the SEC build its sub-prime mortgage fraud case against several...

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Senator Grassley Urges IRS to Strengthen Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow

Both in our practice and on our blog, we typically focus on the SEC Whistleblower Program, which seeks actionable intelligence about possible violations of the federal securities laws. But, the SEC Whistleblower Program is only one of several federal programs that seek to leverage whistleblower information to detect and deter wrongdoing. One of the other...

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SEC Announces Additional Payout to Whistleblower

Labaton Sucharow

The SEC announced on Friday that it made an additional payout of $150,000 to the recipient of the first monetary award under the SEC Whistleblower Program, after successfully collecting more sanctions from one of the defendants in the action. With that additional payout, the whistleblower – who is entitled to receive up to 30% of...

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SEC Officials Provide Promising Reports on the SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow

One of the questions I’m most frequently asked by clients, other lawyers and friends is “what’s happening inside the SEC with respect to the whistleblower program?” Recently, several top SEC officials have provided insight onto this question – and their comments indicate that the SEC continues to see the SEC Whistleblower Program as a powerful...

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High-Frequency Trading: Whistleblower Aids Investigations

Labaton Sucharow

Posted April 2, 2014 The buzz on Wall Street this week has been all about high-frequency trading and Michael Lewis’ new book on the topic, Flash Boys. As Lewis explains, high-frequency trading typically works by exploiting a powerful combination of speed and information: high-frequency traders use sophisticated computer programs to see and analyze trade orders...

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‘Big Short’ Case Tests the Reach of the SEC’s Administrative Forum

Labaton Sucharow

Posted March 31, 2014 On March 21, Wing Chau – a subprime CDO manager who featured prominently in Michael Lewis’s best-selling book “The Big Short” – sued the SEC, claiming that the SEC violated his constitutional rights by choosing to bring its fraud claims against him in its own administrative forum, rather than in federal...

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Why Do People Commit Securities Fraud? SEC Speech Probes for Answers

Labaton Sucharow

One of the most vexing questions in securities enforcement – and in life more generally – is “why do otherwise good people end up doing bad things?”. Why do once promising professionals risk their careers, integrity and freedom for a few more dollars, or to shore up their company’s stock price?These questions were recently the...

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Madoff Verdicts Show the Risks of Staying Silent

Labaton Sucharow

After the revelation in 2008 that Bernard Madoff’s “wealth management” business was actually a colossal Ponzi scheme, Madoff’s victims and the public immediately asked: “Who else in the Madoff organization knew and, if they knew, why didn’t they come forward?” On Monday, that question was answered, at least in part, by a jury considering criminal...

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Focus on the FCPA: SEC Enforcement Trends

Labaton Sucharow

This is the first in an ongoing series of posts focusing on current trends in SEC enforcement actions, and how those trends impact current and potential whistleblowers. We’ve chosen to highlight actions brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) first, because the FCPA continues to be a top priority for the Enforcement Division and,...

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INVESTOR ALERT: BEWARE OF FALSE CLAIMS OF SEC REGISTRATION

“The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Alert to warn investors about potentially fraudulent investment schemes that involve individuals or firms misrepresenting that they are registered with the SEC. Investors should be careful to check the background, including license and registration status, of any person who tries to sell them...

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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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