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An unlikely ad has been getting screen time in Manhattan movie theaters that cater to a Wall Street crowd. Alluding to “the new Dodd/Frank banking reform law,” it informs viewers that by exposing financial fraud they can earn substantial rewards – 10 to 30 percent of the money recovered by the Securities and Exchange Commission. […]

NEW YORK – It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking – the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names – and it’s the rare American that is allowed entry. Bradley Birkenfeld was one of the few Americans who held the keys to the kingdom. A Boston-born, high-flying, cross-border banker at […]

Harry Markopolos, call your office. Under little-noticed new provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, whistleblowers like Markopolos who alerted the SEC to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme will for the first time be entitled to collect between 10- and- 30 percent of the money recovered by the government. And that could turn a new wave […]

Washington, D.C. July 26, 2010.  Assistant Attorney General Tony West confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice was “considering all avenues of redress against the potentially responsible parties,” according to a letter released today by the National Whistleblower Center. The letter specifically mentions the False Claims Act (“FCA”).  The letter is in response to a letter from NWC urging […]

Washington D.C. July 21, 2010. Significant whistleblower reforms included in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act were signed into law by the President this morning. The law contains a number of provisions designed to protect those who come forward to report securities and commodities fraud. The National Whistleblower Center has compiled the sections of […]