Source document

Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claim(s), Exchange Act Release No. 90720

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Government · 18 Dec 2020 · United States

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What the document holds

SEC Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claim, Release No. 90720 (18 Dec 2020, File No. 2021-17, 2 pp., redacted): award of more than $1.2 million (already recorded) after the Commission overrode the CRS's recommended denial under Rule 21F-16; reduced for culpability and delay; no other claimants. Nothing new as a row; suggested note and summary correction. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).

What it supports

2 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.

1 case 1 rule

Cases and awards (1)

Award granted against the staff's recommended denial to a whistleblower who took part in the fraud; reduced for culpability and delay.USD 1,200,00018 Dec 2020AwardedUnited States · SEC Whistleblower Program

Reward rules (1)

Minimum sanctions or amount collected to qualifymonetary sanctions in the Commission action (must total more than)USD 1,000,000Date not stated · SEC 2020United States · SEC Whistleblower Program

About the document

What it covers SEC whistleblower award order (redacted public version): award amount and/or percentage, claimants, related actions

Notes sec.gov blocks scripted downloads; stored copy is the Wayback Machine capture of the PDF fetched with the id_ form (original bytes). Listed on the SEC "Final Orders of the Commission" page.

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