Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2014

SEC Office of the Whistleblower annual report to Congress, FY2014 (34 pp.): Chief's message; OWB staffing (nine attorneys, three paralegals) and activities (over 17 public engagements, over 2,731 hotline calls returned, Final Orders page, training, anti-retaliation and Rule 21F-17 work, performance measures); awards (14 recipients since 2011, nine in FY2014; awards of 22 Sep, 29 Aug, 31 Jul, 22 Jul, 3 Jun 2014 and 30 Oct 2013; additional payments; a denial in the 29 Aug matter); NoCAs (139 in FY2014, 570 since start); claims process and CRS; the frivolous-claimant order (196 claims denied) and 19 other denials; profiles of award recipients (shares of employees, contractors, internal reporters; one anonymous; three joint cases; six with related-action payments; fourth award to a foreign resident); first anti-retaliation case (Paradigm, $2.2 million) and amicus briefs; tips (3,620 in FY2014, 10,193 since Aug 2011, table by year, monthly pie chart, quarterly allegation-type chart, Appendix A comparison FY2012-14, US states Appendix B, foreign countries Appendix C, 60 countries in FY2014 and 83 since start); over 600 matters opened or forwarded from tips; Fund table. Already recorded: FY2014 totals, categories and countries, US/foreign/unknown persons, awards, denials, fund payments and closing balance, seven cases, one event. Added: US state split (bar labels add to 2,679 vs printed 2,683), FY2012-13 comparison bars, tips by year, monthly shares, fund-table lines (table checks to the closing balance), hotline, NoCAs, source-country counts, matters tracked, staff, recipient profile shares and counts, four rules, three award/denial cases and two events.