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From the Pages of The Pomerantz Monitor: New Whistleblower Provisions Stir Debate

By Carolyn Moskowitz

As Joshua Silverman reports in a recent issue of The Pomerantz Monitor, The Dodd-Frank Act financial reform legislation, as implemented by SEC regulation, contains new whistleblower provisions allowing whistleblowers to qualify for monetary awards of up to 30 percent of SEC recoveries if: (1) the whistleblower voluntarily provides information based on the whistleblower?s independent knowledge or analysis rather than publicly-available sources; (2) that information leads to a successful judicial read more

Full post as published by PomTalk on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).