When the Whistle Blows

When the Whistle Blows Sue Reisinger Corporate Counsel November 01, 2010 On August 18 a compliance officer at Interactive Brokers LLC in Chicago called the Securities and Exchange Commission to report that two men in Spain had been trading suspiciously in the stock of a company that had jumped 27 percent the day before. The…

Fighting ‘The Man” Can Off: Pfizer Whistelblower Gets $51M+

“Kopchinski and five other whistleblowers will earn more than $102 million in payments from the U.S. government under the False Claims Act through which individuals can reap rewards for exposing corporate wrongdoing. “The use of whistleblowers has really opened up the keys to the kingdom in terms of what’s going on in these companies,” said…

IRS Signals Willingness to Revise Whistleblower Program

” The Internal Revenue Service may be signaling a willingness to consider changes to its whistleblower program, following complaints that the program is stifling the initiative of informants around a kingpin who may have information about tax evasion. The National Whistleblowers Center released a letter Sept. 6 to IRS recommending changes to a key part…

NWC Releases Letter to IRS on Whistleblower Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. September 6, 2012 – Today, the National Whistleblowers Center released a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman concerning changes necessary to make the whistleblower program effective. The NWC letter addresses a key part of the IRS whistleblower statute that potentially limits the award provided to a whistleblower…

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