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June 23, 2016
BofA to Pay $415 Million Over Claims It Misused Client Funds
Bloomberg
Jordan A. Thomas comments on whistleblower clients leading to Bank of America’s $415M SEC enforcement action Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch brokerage unit will pay $415 million and admit to wrongdoing to settle charges that it misused customer cash in the largest customer protection settlement in the United States in the Securities and Exchange...
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June 23, 2016
Bank of America Pays $430M in Settlement for Misusing Customers’ Cash
USA Today
Jordan A. Thomas comments on whistleblower clients leading to Bank of America’s $415M SEC enforcement action Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch brokerage unit will pay $415 million and admit to wrongdoing to settle charges that it misused customer cash in the largest customer protection settlement in the United States in the Securities and Exchange...
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June 23, 2016
Bank of America to Pay $415 Million to Settle SEC Probe
The Wall Street Journal
Jordan A. Thomas comments on whistleblower clients leading to Bank of America’s $415M SEC enforcement action Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch brokerage unit will pay $415 million and admit to wrongdoing to settle charges that it misused customer cash in the largest customer protection settlement in the United States in the Securities and Exchange...
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June 23, 2016
Merrill Lynch to pay $415 million for misusing customer cash
Reuters
Jordan A. Thomas comments on whistleblower clients leading to Bank of America’s $415M SEC enforcement action Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch brokerage unit will pay $415 million and admit to wrongdoing to settle charges that it misused customer cash in the largest customer protection settlement in the United States in the Securities and Exchange...
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June 14, 2016
Second largest SEC whistleblower award given in financial services investigation
InsideCounsel
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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June 9, 2016
SEC Issues $17 Million Whistleblower Award
The Wall Street Journal
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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June 9, 2016
SEC awards $17 million to whistleblower
The Washington Post
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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June 9, 2016
Whistleblower Gets $17 Million in Second-Biggest SEC Award
Bloomberg
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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June 9, 2016
SEC Pays Out $17M Whistleblower Award – Second-highest award since program launched nearly five years ago
ThinkAdvisor
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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June 9, 2016
Blow the gold whistle: SEC awards tipster $17M in second-largest payout
Washington Examiner
Jordan A. Thomas comments on recent SEC whistleblower case involving record settlement figure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded $17 million—its second largest award yet—to a former company employee whose detailed tip gave the regulator a major leg up in an investigation and enforcement proceeding. The award was the largest announced since a...
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May 26, 2016
Critics Scoff At Developing Forex Market Code Of Conduct
Law360
Jordan A. Thomas discusses steps the industry and regulators have taken in developing the code of conduct for the foreign exchange sector Global regulators recently unveiled their first pass at a uniform code of conduct for the foreign exchange market following a wave of multibillion-dollar rate-rigging settlements, but critics said the proposal was too long...
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May 17, 2016
Over $5 million Awarded to Company Insider
Labaton Sucharow
The SEC announced today that it would award between $5 million and $6 million to a whistleblower whose detailed information led the SEC to uncover securities violations which would have been “nearly impossible to detect” without the company insider’s help. The award is the third highest ever granted under the SEC whistleblower program since the...
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March 19, 2018
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...
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March 20, 2018
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...
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July 29, 2019
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...
Articles & Perspectives
May 30, 2019
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...
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October 5, 2018
Jordan A. Thomas Named Whistleblower “Lawyer of the Year”
Press Release
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...
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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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