This Massive SEC Whistleblower Award Will Make You Wish You’d Seen Something and Said Something

Posted on by Adrienne Gonzalez

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an expected award of more than $30 million to a whistleblower who provided key original information that led to a successful SEC enforcement action. 

The award will be the largest made by the SEC’s whistleblower program to date and the fourth award to a whistleblower living in a foreign country, demonstrating the program’s international reach.

“This whistleblower came to us with information about an ongoing fraud that would have been very difficult to detect,” said Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.  “This record-breaking award sends a strong message about our commitment to whistleblowers and the value they bring to law enforcement.” [SEC]

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Good Lord. Recently laid off peeps, please do your country a bit of service and help out the complete f*(king nightmare that is our government. We implore you.