Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2016

SEC Office of the Whistleblower annual report to Congress, FY2016 (40 pp.; charts and appendices are images): Chief's message (more than $111 million to 34 whistleblowers; over $57 million in FY2016; over $584 million in sanctions ordered incl. more than $346 million disgorgement; over 4,200 tips; anti-retaliation and Rule 21F-17 cases; hotline over 3,121 calls, 15,413 since 2011); OWB staff (Chief, eleven attorneys, five paralegals, assistant) and activities; awards made in FY2016 with a top-10 awards chart; award process (178 NoCAs; 16 claims on one NoCA); recipient profiles (26 covered actions; ~60/40 caused vs contributed; ~65% insiders; ~80% internal; about half represented; almost a quarter anonymous; five joint; six related criminal; eight foreign nationals); Rule 21F-17 cases (Merrill Lynch, BlueLinx, Health Net, AB InBev) and the IGT retaliation case; tips (4,218 excl. one prolific filer; 18,334 since 2011; by year; allegation chart; Appendix A FY2013-16 comparison, image; Appendix B US states, image; Appendix C countries, image; 67 countries in FY2016, 103 since start); over 800 matters tracked; Fund table. Already recorded: FY2016 totals, categories, countries, US/foreign/unknown persons, award totals, sanctions, fund payment and closing balance, nine award cases, one event. Added: US state split (OCR of the image chart, 50 bars = 3,087), tips by year, fund lines (table checks), disgorgement, hotline, NoCAs, country counts, matters tracked, staff, recipient-profile counts and shares, the April 2015 award range from the top-10 chart, and six events.