Whistleblower

The legislation would create a whistleblower program similar to the one at the SEC, offering protection to accountants and auditors, and others who know of accounting fraud.

A former Walt Disney accountant has accused the company of overstating revenue for years and has filed whistleblower tips with the SEC.

His analysis underscored how sweeping accounting changes coming in the next few years are raising questions for the life insurance industry.

General Electric shares plunged after a prominent whistle-blower working with a short-seller accused the company of masking financial problems.

The Securities and Exchange Commission awarded $3 million to a group of unidentified whistleblowers Monday.

The anonymous tipster is the first rewarded under rules that encourage employees to report potential fraud to their companies first.

The Tax Court has ruled that a whistleblower may challenge an IRS award decision when the whistleblower provides new information in a later supplemental form.

Olympus Corp. lost a U.K. lawsuit that tried to block the pension of former head Michael Woodford after he blew the whistle on an alleged $1.7 billion accounting fraud and 13-year cover-up at the firm.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Program made 217 awards to whistleblowers totaling $312,207,590 and collected $1,441,255,859, according to a new report.

Much of what we know about whistleblowers is wrong -- and that matters, because they play a crucial role in uncovering fraud, says accounting professor and fraud researcher Kelly Richmond Pope.

The defendant is accused of selling stolen information to the German tax authorities.

A former Julius Baer banker who leaked documents from a Cayman Islands subsidiary was cleared of breaking Swiss banking secrecy by Switzerland’s top court, creating possible problems for how the Alpine nation’s banks manage their foreign units.

A former Tesla Inc. employee portrayed by Elon Musk as a saboteur has filed a whistle-blower tip with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the company made misstatements and omissions to investors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Thursday to propose amendments to the rules surrounding its whistleblower program.

Individuals who expose accounting violations can earn substantial payouts.

The former company insider first submitted the tip to another agency, but provided the same information to the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days.

The biggest-ever payouts went to tipsters who provided information that helped the agency bring a 2016 case against Bank of America.

The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed an anti-retaliation provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, insulating publicly traded companies from some whistleblower lawsuits.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program demonstrated during fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2017 that it continues to be a remarkable tool for combating securities fraud in the United States and strengthening capital markets.

This marks the commission’s third award in a week.