Securities and Exchange Commission Office of the Whistleblower Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2024

SEC OWB Annual Report to Congress FY2024 (15 Nov 2024, 14 pp.; pp. 3, 12 and 13 have image charts/tables, read by OCR): awards (over $255 million to 47 individuals; cumulative more than $2.2 billion to 444; seven related-action awards), OWB staffing at 30 Sep 2024, 396 award applications, 49 reconsideration requests, 163 Final Orders, 3,000+ hotline calls, anti-impeding actions (11 in FY2024, 32 to date, 5 anti-retaliation), top five awards chart and six noteworthy awards (cases already recorded; the $1 million+ Rel. 100812 award added from the report; $98m split given as suggested correction), insider/outsider shares, independent knowledge/analysis award counts, other statistics (27 caused / 20 contributed, ~10% joint, 7 related-action awardees, 1 claimant barred), award process (text), presumption applied ~90%, awards reduced (3 delay, 3 culpability), Rule 21F-17 penalties (J.P. Morgan, GQG, Nationwide group, seven public companies with each penalty in fn 30, Sanchez case without amount), tips (24,980; FY2023 18,354; 14,000 from two individuals; category shares and chart already recorded, chart adds to 24,980 with the 4,200 uncategorised), top foreign countries and US states named by rank only (no counts), Fund table (all lines added; adds up to the closing balance). One accountant, paralegal, analyst and program specialist ("an") not recorded as numbers. Dated anti-impeding/retaliation actions added as events.