Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2015

SEC Office of the Whistleblower annual report to Congress, FY2015 (34 pp.): Chief's message (more than $54 million paid to 22 whistleblowers; over $37 million in FY2015; over 390 claims decided; more than 120 award claims in FY2015; nearly 4,000 tips); OWB staff (ten attorneys, five paralegals, an assistant) and activities (over 2,801 hotline calls, over 20 public engagements, KBR Rule 21F-17 case, anti-retaliation work); awards (over 150 claims decided in FY2015; $30m award paid; Paradigm 30%; compliance professional; $3m; officer; 20% to two foreign nationals; 28%; $325,000 after year end); NoCAs (139; 709 to date); review process (minimum seven months); frivolous-claimant order (25 NoCAs); Stryker decision; award-recipient profiles; retaliation section (KBR, interpretive guidance, Berman); tips (3,923; 14,116 to date; table by year; monthly pie; quarterly allegation chart; Appendix A FY2012-15; Appendix B US states; Appendix C 61 countries, 95 to date); over 700 matters tracked; Fund table. Already recorded: FY2015 totals, categories, countries, US/foreign/unknown persons, award totals, claims decided, fund payment and closing balance, eight cases and the Stryker event. Added: US state split (53 entries = 2,892), FY2012-14 comparison bars, tips by year, monthly shares, remaining fund lines (checks to the closing balance), hotline calls, award claims received, NoCAs, source-country counts, matters tracked, staff, recipient-profile counts and shares, a rule, a case note on the $30m payment, and three events.