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Last week, the SEC prevailed in its first federal court trial of FY 2017. On November 14, 2016, the SEC announced that a jury in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California had found a doctor and his friend liable for insider trading in the case of SEC v. Sabrdaran et al. via SEC trial […]
So far, only 37 claimants have actually been granted an award. Claims by 120 claimants were rejected by the agency, according to a review of the office’s final orders. There are four main reasons why. via SEC Whistle-Blower Awards: No Guarantees | Bloomberg BNA
When Congress created the SEC Whistleblower program in the Dodd-Frank Act, one of the requirements was that the SEC’s Office of the Whistlblower would provide an annual report to Congress. On November 15, 2016, the SEC released its annual whistleblower report for the 2016 fiscal year (which ended September 30, 2016). The report shows that […]
The company led by the American billionaire Koch brothers, along with dozens of banks and fund managers, kept billions of dollars in profit from Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme in accounts offshore. As it turns out, that was a good decision. Koch Industries and others who invested in the Madoff fund from offshore accounts won […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for November 22, 2016.