Sean X. McKessy: King of the whistleblowers
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Tammy Whitehouse2017-05-09T10:30:00
Sean McKessy spent several years at the SEC building its whistleblower protection program, putting in place an incentive program for paying whistleblowers, and creating a new way for the SEC to break cases.
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