It took over five years, but we finally have a success story in the “professional whistleblower” area that I have been wondering about here since September 2010. On Friday, the SEC announced that it has awarded more than $700,000 to an industry expert (who was a company outsider) who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action. Sean X. McKessy, Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, stated that the award
