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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Dems on SEC Approve Whistleblower Rewards

Litigators, start your engines. The SEC narrowly approved a measure that will encourage, through cash rewards, company employees to rat out the companies they work for.

While I'm fully in favor of correcting illegal or immoral behavior, the number of cases against innocent companies is virtually guaranteed to skyrocket because of the new rule.