Will They Blow the Whistle for $30 Million? Whistleblower Rewards are Rising, Companies and Individual Lawyers Warned Not to Stand in the Way Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it expects to pay the largest whistleblower reward pursuant to Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that the agency has paid to date "more than $30 million" to a foreign whistleblower. The SEC's announcement of this record award came shortly after Attorney General Holder reportedly urged Congress to increase the $1.6 million limit on whistleblower awards for information related to financial crimes provided for under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act .
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