IT Whistleblower Gets $3.5 Million For Reporting Excessive Travel
Article by John Peterson, Managing Attorney, FBR. Technology has come a long way in the last decade but IT support hasn’t changed: “Have you tried turning it off, then turning it on again?” For one proud IT worker, the days of answering beleaguered calls for tech support may be over after taking home a […]
5 Things People Don’t Know About The SEC Whistleblower Program
Article by John Peterson, Managing Attorney, FBR. By now, a lot of people have heard about the SEC’s whistleblower awards program: If you report a company, you can get 10-30% of the fine that the SEC recovers. But there are still some less obvious aspects of the program that people don’t know about which […]
Individual fights to bring corruption to light gets record award
Update by John Peterson, Managing Attorney, FBR. If you ever wondered what’s the most a whistleblower can recover, there is no upper limit on the payout. But if you were wondering what the record is, it was $114 million paid to an individual in October 2020. What is interesting about this award is that the Office […]
Double whistleblowers go it together for joint award
Update by John Peterson, Managing Attorney, FBR. The journey of a whistleblower can be a lonely road, but a recent award shows that when reporting corruption, you don’t have to go it alone. The Office of the Whistleblower awarded $50 million to a pair of whistleblowers who decided to report corporate misconduct together. The Office noted […]
