SEC Awards Approximately $3 Million to Two Whistleblowers
The whistleblowers separately and independently provided SEC staff with valuable information and ongoing assistance, which included participating in multiple interviews with the staff and providing helpful documents.
- The whistleblowers separately and independently provided SEC staff with valuable information and ongoing assistance, which included participating in multiple interviews with the staff and providing helpful documents.
- Todays whistleblowers played an instrumental role in helping the SEC bring this important action, said Emily Pasquinelli, Acting Chief of the SECs Office of the Whistleblower.
- The SEC has awarded approximately $932 million to 172 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012.
- As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower's identity.