{"id":229,"date":"2009-09-20T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2009\/09\/calls_for_a_false_claims_act_f.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:48:56","slug":"calls_for_a_false_claims_act_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/calls_for_a_false_claims_act_f\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls Continue for a “False Claims Act” for Wall Street Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Madoff and Stanford scandals, we have written about the calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish a meaningful whistleblower rewards program<\/a>. Currently, no adequate incentives exist for whistleblowers to speak up when they might have a chance to stop large scale fraud and prevent the next Madoff or Stanford debacle. How much better off would so many Americans be if someone had exposed Madoff before he defrauded so many investors?<\/p>\n

Forbes has run interesting column by Bill Singer<\/a>, calling for a statute that apples “False Claims Act” whistleblower remedies to Wall Street. Why not protect investors from the massive losses that so many incurred? The current system<\/a> obviously failed to do so. Harry Markopolis has described eloquently how the SEC could do so much better<\/a>, and new SEC whistleblower rewards should make a huge difference.<\/p>\n

We are already seeing the successes of another innovative law based on the same idea, the IRS Whistleblower Program<\/a>. To stop those who would have you and I carry their share of the nation’s tax burden, private citizens are stepping forward with better and better information to provide to the IRS about significant tax cheating. The quality of the information that our clients are presenting is compelling, and some of it will help stop major abuses of the tax laws.
\n Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the Madoff and Stanford scandals, we have written about the calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish a meaningful whistleblower rewards program. Currently, no adequate incentives exist for whistleblowers to speak up when they might have a chance to stop large scale fraud and prevent the next Madoff or Stanford debacle. 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