{"id":73997,"date":"2020-05-04T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T06:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=73997"},"modified":"2020-05-06T02:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:04:12","slug":"cftc-awards-more-than-2-million-to-four-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2020\/cftc-awards-more-than-2-million-to-four-whistleblowers.html","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Awards More Than $2 Million to Four Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(HedgeCo.Net) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced a whistleblower award exceeding $2 million to be shared among four whistleblowers. The CFTC granted the whistleblowers\u2019 award applications for both a CFTC action and related actions brought by another regulator. In issuing the award, the CFTC recognized the contributions of the whistleblowers, who jointly submitted a tip to the CFTC.  Each of the whistleblowers also individually provided significant, ongoing assistance to the CFTC\u2019s Division of Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many instances, whistleblowers are in the best position to identify suspicious conduct,\u201d said CFTC Director of Enforcement James McDonald. \u201cThat\u2019s precisely what happened in this case. After witnessing unusual activity, the whistleblowers worked together to quickly submit a joint tip with sufficient detail that drew our attention to the potential violations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe four whistleblowers here synthesized information for the CFTC that highlighted the economic impact of the suspicious activity they identified,\u201d said CFTC Whistleblower Office Director Christopher Ehrman. \u201cThe whistleblowers\u2019 initiative not only led to the CFTC\u2019s investigation, but also to related investigations brought by other regulators.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HedgeCo.Net) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced a whistleblower award exceeding $2 million to be shared among four whistleblowers. The CFTC granted the whistleblowers\u2019 award applications for both a CFTC action and related actions brought by another regulator. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,16048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-networks-press-releases","category-hedgeco-news","category-hedgecovest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73998,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions\/73998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}