Source document
Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claim(s), Exchange Act Release No. 97598
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What the document holds
SEC Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claims, Release No. 97598 (26 May 2023, File No. 2023-61, 7 pp., redacted, partly OCR-damaged): awards of about $2 million (Claimant 1) and about $500,000 (Claimant 2, reduced for delay, contested), both already recorded; four other claimants denied (footnote 1). Added 1 denial case row; suggested summary and notes corrections for both 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 percipient witness whose share was reduced for unreasonable reporting delay (at least five years after knowing, four after leaving the employer); claim that the first claimant's information came from him/her rejected.USD 500,00026 May 2023AwardedUnited States · SEC Whistleblower Program
- Award applications of four other claimants preliminarily denied; none requested reconsideration, so the denials became the Commission's final order.26 May 2023DeniedUnited States · SEC Whistleblower Program
- Larger award to the claimant whose tips, sent persistently for years before the investigation opened, were its initial source; claimant suffered hardships.USD 2,000,00026 May 2023AwardedUnited 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.
Source id usa-sec-wb-order-34-97598 · accessed 5 Oct 2026