The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) released its “Financial Crimes Report to the Public” for fiscal years 2010-2011 earlier this week.  A section on securities and commodities fraud should be of interest to individual who are thinking about providing information to the Securities Exchange Commission or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission under their new whistleblower [...]

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill last year to enact a so-called “Whistleblower Improvement Act (H.R. 2483),” which would require employees to alert their management before blowing the whistle on corporate misconduct to regulators at the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  The Grimm bill presents a direct threat to [...]

The New York Post reported on February 12, 2012, that a corporate insider has filed a whistleblower tip with the SEC alleging that an employee of a leading proxy advisory firm has been selling information about upcoming shareholder votes to proxy solicitation firms, which assist corporations in convincing large shareholders to vote their shares in support [...]

The FCPA blog, a blog dedicated to providing news and views about the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), reported today that Qualcomm was facing an investigation by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to whistleblower allegations made in December 2009.  Qualcomm is an international wireless technology and [...]