{"id":16943,"date":"2010-07-28T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2010-07-28T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:53:00","slug":"sec-pays-1-million-to-hedge-fund-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/sec-pays-1-million-to-hedge-fund-whistleblower.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Pays $1 Million To Hedge Fund Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Based on the new Dodd-Frank Act that was just signed into  law last week  by President Obama, new legislation allows the SEC to award huge sums  to whistleblowers in insider-trading cases such as the one against hedge fund Pequot Capital Management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dodd-obama-frank-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16944\" title=\"dodd-obama-frank-\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dodd-obama-frank-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dodd-obama-frank-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg 337w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dodd-obama-frank-cropped-proto-custom_2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;As of this past Friday, the SEC now has greater  ability to extract information from employees of corporations and others  involved with those employees.&#8221;\u00a0 Ed Tomko, head of the White Collar Crime practice at   Curran Tomko Tarski, announced.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a payment was  made by the SEC to Karen and Glen Kaiser who provided documents that  helped the SEC build its case against Arthur J. Samberg,  founder of the Pequot hedge fund and David E. Zilkha, a former  Microsoft employee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has broad reaching implications for public companies as well as  businesses operating in the financial sectors,&#8221; said Tomko. &#8220;This is the largest amount awarded by the SEC to whistleblowers in an  insider-trading case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, there is the potential now for whistleblowers to be  enticed by lucrative fees they will receive for providing information to  the government.  This can become a slippery slope for businesses.  This  can now provide possibly a powerful incentive for an employee or  individual related to an employee who know of a securities violation to  contact the SEC and provide information that may lead to a large payment  in exchange for the information.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Based on the new Dodd-Frank Act that was just signed into law last week by President Obama, new legislation allows the SEC to award huge sums to whistleblowers in insider-trading cases such as the one against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16947,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}