Whistleblower Law Insights

On August 8, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order requiring FTX Trading Ltd. and Alameda...

Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program to help the agency ferret out corporate crime. Under the three-year pilot program, whistleblowers can...

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) pervades current discussions in government, business, and academia.  While the potential for this rapidly developing technology is both exciting and unnerving, some...

A recent investigation into Epic Systems’ proprietary software algorithms underscores the critical importance of whistleblowers to protect patients as the health technology industry develops. Concerns...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken its first enforcement action to protect whistleblower communications to the CFTC.  On June 17, the CFTC announced a $55 million fine against global...

In a major step to create a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency, the U.S. House of Representatives last Wednesday passed H.R. 4763, the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century...

Congress requires federal agencies to adjust civil money penalties each year to keep pace with inflation.  Under that authority, this year DOJ increased the civil penalties for False Claims Act violations...

CFTC Investigates Wall Street Banks Over NDAs Recently the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked the Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., and other Wall Street banks...

Congress and law enforcement agencies are taking aim at cryptocurrency mixers –services that mix cryptocurrency funds from multiple users in order to obscure the origin of the funds and make financial...

Introduction to DOJ’s Cybersecurity Enforcement Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Insight Global LLC agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve allegations that the company violated...