Nicole Creola Kelly has worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission for a quarter-century in a variety of roles. Now, as head of the agency’s whistleblower award program, she is facing perhaps her biggest challenge: critics who say the program favors those with connections to ...Read More

The record $279 million whistleblower award issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month stemmed from a bribery case against telecommunications company Ericsson. The award from the SEC’s cash-for-tips program was related to the $1.1 billion settlement the Swedish company reached with U.S. authorities in 2019 over ...Read More

Some top US technology companies are forcing workers to sign allegedly illegal labor agreements, according to complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, despite years of enforcement by the agency against the practice. Firms, including an Apple Inc. subcontractor, Electronic Arts Inc. and Block Inc. improperly used non-disclosure agreements ...Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of $20 million to a whistleblower who provided new and critical information that led to the success of an enforcement action. In determining the appropriate award amount, the SEC considered that the whistleblower provided significant ...Read More

A former compliance employee for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA has agreed to drop a retaliation lawsuit against the bank. Shaquala Williams, a former JPMorgan vice president, had sued her former employer last year, alleging the bank fired her for raising concerns about its compliance program. A federal ...Read More

Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, portraying the company as incapable or unwilling to provide even the most basic data security assurances to its millions of users. “[Twitter executives] don’t know what data they have, where it ...Read More