SEC Whistleblower Office Reveals One More Award, Hands Out $2.1M ‎to Tipster

[kreslik.news]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced a more than $2.1 million award to a whistleblower who provided information assisting in an enforcement action against a registered entity that its law violations impacted retail customers.

This brings the whistleblower program’s total endowment to approximately $266 million awarded to 55 whistleblowers since issuing its first award in 2012. The SEC has issued nearly $90 million in whistleblower awards in March alone.

Committed to protecting the anonymity of informants, the SEC did not disclose the individual’s identity or the involved organization. The regulator discloses no information that could directly or ... (read more)