Bitcoin surged past $17,000 Thursday as the frenzy surrounding the virtual currency escalated just days before it starts trading on major U.S. exchanges. Bitcoin has gained more than $5,000 in just the past two days.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has awarded its latest whistleblower more than $4.1m for information relating to a securities law violation.
The whistleblower is the third awarded by the SEC in the past week. The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of more than $4.1 million to a former company insider who alerted the agency to a widespread, multi-year securities law violation and continued to provide important information and assistance throughout the SEC's investigation.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won an emergency asset freeze to stop an initial coin offering that the agency said has defrauded investors by promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two individuals with defrauding elderly investors in a penny stock scheme involving Florida entertainment companies and their "Spongebuddy" product.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards of more than $8 million each to two whistleblowers whose critical information and continuing assistance helped the agency bring the successful underlying enforcement action.
A former employee of a U.S. government contractor in Afghanistan who pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks from a subcontractor in exchange for assistance in obtaining government contracts, was sentenced to 21 months in prison Tuesday.
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether corporate whistle-blowers are protected from being fired if they disclose wrongdoing to company officials rather than to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Uber concealed a massive breach of the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers in October 2016, failing to notify the individuals and regulators, the company acknowledged on Tuesday.
Saying Bitcoin is un-hackable is of small comfort to those who've lost money through cracks in its ecosystem of exchanges, intermediaries and money-raising schemes. The latest theft in cryptoland is a reminder that the promise of security and liquidity is only that -- a promise.
Fifa's World Cup debacle isn't just about money - there's horror and death too - Are you feeling it yet? The Fifa corruption fatigue? It has, after all, been seven years in the making, from the oddly homespun excesses of the whistleblower Chuck Blazer, football's own mobility scooter Liberace; to the cold, gangsterish disdain of the Grondona-Teixeira-Leoz axis, the kind of Fifa men who would carve out your liver with an ivory-inlaid oyster knife if it meant getting a step closer to a secret six-figure TV rights access sweetener.
Wal-Mart's new FCPA payout might not be huge, but the massive retailer has still racked up plenty of expenses around fixing its foreign whistleblower bribery problems.
The most common healthcare provider fraud activities drain public payer finances and promote unsafe care conditions for beneficiaries.
A whistleblower's lawsuit against the Verona-based digital health care records giant Epic Systems alleges the company has been overbilling the government for Medicaid and Medicare.
The TIAA practices drawing scrutiny from the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, are also the subject of a whistle-blower complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
James L. Reeves, who worked for Mercer Transport for many years, turned whistleblower, and told federal investigators what was going on with a freight scam, that was costing the government millions, fraudulently, as determined by the Albany Federal Court.
With Lockheed Martin in the crosshairs of a whistleblower who claims its fighter-jet program defrauded the United States of more than $50 million, attorneys for the defense giant urged a Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday to affirm a lower court's dismissal of the case.
Whistleblowers in banking are being gagged and risk ending up broke and unemployed despite reforms introduced since the financial crisis, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday.
It's called the Paradise Papers: the latest in a series of leaks made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shedding light on the trillions of dollars that move through offshore tax havens.
AmerisourceBergen Corp. said Thursday it has set aside $575 million amid a False Claims Act investigation related to impure drugs and avoidance of U.S. Food and Drug Administration oversight, following the drug distributor's recent criminal plea involving the same allegations.
