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10 Important Facts About FinCEN’s Whistleblower Program

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is one of a handful of federal authorities that have adopted whistleblower programs focused on facilitating enforcement in hard-to-target areas. While FinCEN focuses its...more

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NDIL Launches Pilot Program to Encourage Individual Self-Disclosure of Organizational Misconduct

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The Development: On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois ("NDIL") announced its six-month Individual Self-Disclosure Pilot Program for Organizational Misconduct ("Pilot...more

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DOJ Updates Its Corporate Compliance Programs Guidance

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On September 23, 2024, the Criminal Division of the U.S Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance (“September 2024 Guidance), last updated in March 2023....more

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Celebrating World Whistleblower Day 2024

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“Whistleblower”. Rarely has a term provoked such lively and varied reactions in the political, economic and social spheres – and even in households! Traitors for some, heroes for others, these people, who were never...more

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U.K. Parliament Giving Whistleblower Protections a Fresh Review

Recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom, public remarks from the new director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and recent parliamentary hearings on the Post Office Horizon scandal put a spotlight on...more

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Client Alert: Calling (Some but Not All) Whistleblowers: Understanding SDNY’s New Whistleblower Pilot Program

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On January 10, 2024, US Attorney Damian Williams announced a new Whistleblower Pilot Program for the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York (SDNY). The program is designed to proactively uncover criminal...more

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Ninth Circuit Narrowly Construes Scope of Protected Activity for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Claim

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In Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adopted a limited, plain meaning construction of the types of reports that are protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s (SOX) whistleblower...more

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