We have talked about Jordan Thomas — the lawyer who designed the whistleblower program at the SEC and then left to be one of its main beneficiaries — before; I wrote: “This is a good trade — build a spigot of government money and plant yourself in front of it.” If you currently work at the SEC, I suppose you have incentives to increase the flow out of the spigot so that one day you too can plant yourself in front of it.
Source: Some Free Brokers Are Cheaper Than Others – Bloomberg