Allison Herren Lee is a former SEC Commissioner and Of Counsel at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP. This post is based on her Kohn, Kohn, & Colapinto piece.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it is embarking on a “90-day sprint” to develop a whistleblower award program. This is a promising and welcome development for fairness and the rule of law in corporate America. Whistleblower programs at other federal agencies have been resounding successes, bolstering enforcement efforts against hard-to-detect crimes by incentivizing those with knowledge of misconduct to come forward.
As DOJ considers how best to construct this new program, it fortunately has a model of success to consider in the programs created under Dodd-Frank at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). READ MORE