Whistleblowers Continue to See Significant Monetary Awards in 2014

In following up on last year’s impressive $14 million dollar whistleblower reward, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced an award of $875,000 to two whistleblowers “who aided” the Agency on its investigation. In addition, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced just last month that it had made its first award to a whistleblower – the individual will “receive approximately $240,000 for providing valuable information about violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.”

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