In a span of just six weeks, the whistleblower provisions in the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Act have gone from a little-known sleeper section of the law to one of its most highly scrutinized provisions. Congress has been vocal that the whistleblower provisions are a smart way to uncover more fraud—at no cost to the taxpayers, they say, since the funds used for whistleblower bounties will come out of penalties companies pay to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro has also identified whistleblower bounties as a key new tool that may help the ...