Whistleblower

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.