November 18, 2019
SEC Releases Annual Report of Whistleblower Program: Program Continues to Prove Long-Term Success for Securities Enforcement
The SEC has released its 2019 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program. Since the program’s inception, tips received through the SEC Whistleblower Program have contributed to successful enforcement actions that enabled the Commission to recover more than $2 billion in monetary sanctions, almost $500 million of which has been, or is scheduled to be, returned...
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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...
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July 23, 2019
SEC Whistleblower Program Surpasses $2 Billion in Monetary Sanctions With Latest Whistleblower Award
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded a half-million dollars “to an overseas whistleblower whose expeditious reporting helped the Commission bring a successful enforcement action.” The Commission’s press release further reports that, with this and other recent enforcement actions brought as a result of tips from SEC whistleblowers, the SEC Whistleblower Program has yielded more than $2...
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June 26, 2019
Jordan Thomas Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Proposals to Strengthen Securities Enforcement
Press Release
On June 19, 2019, nationally recognized SEC whistleblower lawyer Jordan A. Thomas testified before the U.S. House Committee of Financial Services at a hearing convened by the Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets, entitled “Putting Investors First: Examining Proposals to Strengthen Enforcement Against Securities Law Violators.” As the Committee examined legislative proposals that...
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June 21, 2019
Jordan A. Thomas Named “Distinguished Leader” by New York Law Journal
New York Law Journal
Former SEC Official Continuously Honored for Leadership Achievements in the Whistleblower Field Jordan A. Thomas has been named a “Distinguished Leader” by the New York Law Journal. Announced on June 18, 2019, the publication recognizes attorneys in leadership roles who achieved impressive results over the past year. A leading SEC whistleblower attorney worldwide, Mr. Thomas...
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June 11, 2019
The Largest SEC Whistleblower Award in History: One Year Later
In a Q&A in the New York Law Journal, SEC whistleblower lawyer Jordan Thomas talks about his clients’ landmark bounty in an enforcement action involving Merrill Lynch. At $83 million, his three clients earned the largest SEC whistleblower award in the history of the program. Jordan also talks more generally about this important investor protection...
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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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