Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2019

SEC Office of the Whistleblower annual report to Congress, FY2019 (40 pp.): Chief's message (over $2 billion sanctions incl. more than $1 billion disgorgement, almost $500 million returned; about $387 million to 67 individuals; about $60 million to 8 in FY2019; recipient features in FY2019; over 5,200 tips; over 2,600 hotline calls, nearly 24,000 since 2011); OWB staff; awards and top-10 charts; award process (151 NoCAs; Cerny, LaViola); recipient profiles (55 covered actions; ~68/32; ~69% insiders; ~85% internal; defendant shares; eight joint matters; seven related actions; fifteen foreign); protection (three retaliation actions and eleven Rule 21F-17 actions to date; Crumbley/Sedona); tips (5,212; over 33,300 since 2011; bar chart by year; allegation chart incl. crypto; Appendix A FY2016-19; Appendix B US states and territories, tips; Appendix C 70 countries, 123 since start); over 1,000 matters tracked; Fund table with sequestration and accrual reversals; fall below $300 million on 31 Mar 2019 and $156.5 million replenishment on 30 Apr 2019. Already recorded: FY2019 totals, categories, countries, US/foreign/unknown tips, award totals, sanctions, fund paid and closing balance, six cases, replenishment event. Added: US state split (52 labels = 3,262 as printed), FY2016-18 comparison bars (labels matched to the earlier reports, all 45 accounted for), tips by year, remaining fund lines (table checks to the closing balance), disgorgement and amounts returned, FY2019 recipient counts, hotline, NoCAs, country counts, matters tracked, staff, recipient-profile counts and shares, protection-action counts, the $37m/$13m split and one event. Not recorded: the statement that the Fund "fell below $300 million" on 31 Mar 2019 (a threshold crossing, not a balance).