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The Whistleblower business can be very profitable for tipsters, a landmark whistleblower award of nearly $2.5 million was awarded today by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The recipient of this award was the employee of a domestic government agency. Information provided by this whistleblower was instrumental in launching a SEC investigation. The anonymous whistleblower continued to offer assistance and eventually helped expose wide ranging misconduct in an unnamed company.

Jane Norberg, the Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower praised whistleblowers and the continued success of the award program.

”Whistleblowers can provide a wealth of information and ongoing assistance that helps our agency bring enforcement actions quicker and more efficiently,” She also noted the speed allowed by the assistance of whistleblowers.’ “This whistleblower not only helped us open the case, but also provided timely ongoing assistance along with critical documents and testimony that accelerated the pace of our enforcement action.”

How the Investment Management Firm BlackRock Undermined Whistleblower Incentives on secwhistleblowerlawyers.net

Firm managing $5.1 trillion is forced to change improper employee whistleblower policy

Until recently, the world’s largest investment management firm forced ex-employees to sign away their rights to potential whistleblower awards in order to receive employee separation package payments. BlackRock, Inc., which has 30 offices in 70 countries, was charged by the SEC and fined $340,000 for the illegal policy, which is alleged to have affected more than 1,000 employees.

BlackRock’s controversial policy, which the SEC alleged was retaliation for a new rule improving whistleblower awards, isn’t the only example of a financial firm attempting to discourage current or former employees from blowing the whistle.

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