Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2017

SEC Office of the Whistleblower annual report to Congress, FY2017 (38 pp.): Chief's message (over $975 million in sanctions incl. more than $671 million disgorgement; nearly $50 million to 12 individuals in FY2017; about $160 million to 46 since start; over 4,400 tips; hotline nearly 3,200 calls, over 18,600 since 2011; HomeStreet, NeuStar, BlackRock, SandRidge cases); OWB staff and activities; awards in FY2017 and a top-10 chart (all already recorded as cases); award process (193 NoCAs; Cerny decision); recipient profiles (37 covered actions; pies on additional assistance, how information led to the action, insider/outsider type, internal reporting, defendants, violation types; counsel and anonymity; six joint matters; six related actions; nine foreign); protection enforcement (three retaliation actions, one in FY2017; nine Rule 21F-17 actions, four in FY2017); internal-reporting advocacy (Digital Realty cert and amicus); tips (4,484, excluding two prolific filers; by year; allegation chart; Appendix A FY2014-17; Appendix B US states; Appendix C 72 countries, 114 since start); over 700 matters tracked; Fund table. Already recorded: FY2017 totals, categories, countries, US/foreign/unknown persons, award totals, sanctions, fund payment and closing balance, ten cases. Added: US state split (51 labels add to 3,184; footnote says over 3,100), FY2014-16 comparison bars (labels matched to the earlier reports), tips by year, fund lines (checks to the closing balance), disgorgement, hotline, NoCAs, country counts, matters tracked, staff, all recipient-profile counts and pie shares (pie labels assigned by slice position, checked against the text where possible), protection-enforcement counts (proposed indicator) and seven events.