Source document
Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claim(s), Exchange Act Release No. 91808
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What the document holds
SEC Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claims, Release No. 91808 (10 May 2021, File No. 2021-45, 5 pp., redacted; p. 4 has no text layer and was OCRed): awards of nearly $18 million (Claimant 1) and more than $4 million (Claimant 2) on two covered actions (both already recorded); both contested the split and lost; Claimant 2 reduced for reporting delay; footnote 1: three other claimants denied (uncontested). Added: 1 denial row; suggested summary/notes corrections for both award rows.
What it supports
3 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Cases and awards (3)
- Smaller award to a recent insider who reported years after the first whistleblower; reduced for unreasonable reporting delay.USD 4,000,00010 May 2021AwardedUnited States · SEC Whistleblower Program
- Award claims of three other claimants on the two covered actions preliminarily denied; none requested reconsideration, so the denials became the Commission's final order.10 May 2021DeniedUnited States · SEC Whistleblower Program
- Largest award in the order to the claimant whose tip, years earlier, started the investigation of a financial services firm; contested and upheld.USD 18,000,00010 May 2021AwardedUnited 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
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