• Home
  • About
  • ‘Enforcement 40’ for 2020
  • Webcasts
  • Enforcement Hall of Fame
  • Contact
Securities Docket
Ankura 480x60
  • Class Actions
  • Criminal
  • Global
  • People
  • SD Insider
  • SEC
  • Video
  • Subscribe by email
  • Subscribe
Browse: Home / 2020 / June / 01 / Tips to SEC Surge as Working From Home Emboldens Whistleblowers – WSJ

Tips to SEC Surge as Working From Home Emboldens Whistleblowers – WSJ

By Securities Docket on June 1, 2020, 8:56 am

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission received about 4,000 tips, complaints and referrals of possible corporate wrongdoings from mid-March to mid-May, said Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC’s enforcement division. That number is 35% higher than it was in the same period last year. The tips have led to hundreds of new investigations—“many Covid-19 related, but many in other traditional areas,” Mr. Peikin said in a recent speech.

Lawyers chalk up the increase to the fact that many would-be tipsters are working from the privacy of their home, out of view of snooping colleagues and managers and thus safer from being exposed as whistleblowers. Tipsters might also feel less concerned about retaliation if they are not interacting regularly with their managers, lawyers say; if they have been furloughed or laid off, they might feel even less so.

via Tips to SEC Surge as Working From Home Emboldens Whistleblowers – WSJ.

Blog Widget by LinkWithin

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Whistleblowers

« Previous Next »

Subscribe

‘Enforcement 40’ for 2020

Securities-Docket_Medium-Rectangle_CaseStudyArrow

Our Sponsors

Securities-Docket_260x125_14Sec Ankura 260x125

Join Us On LinkedIn

Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedIn

Archives

Copyright © 2022 Securities Docket.

Powered by WordPress and Hybrid.