• posted: May 25, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• financial fraud,  employer retaliation,  employment discrimination

A former vice president of finance at Transdigm, a Washington aerospace supplier, has accused the company of retaliatory termination after she reported financial fraud. The discrimination suit alleged that Transdigm Read More

• posted: Feb. 11, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• financial fraud,  SEC rules violations,  corporate fraud

A new rule interpretation announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission has created concern among whistleblowers, who believe it could weaken incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with information about Read More

• posted: Dec. 31, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  financial crime,  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a record judgment against JPMorgan Chase & Company and its subsidiaries. JPMorgan will pay out a record $920.2 million for a CFTC case, Read More

• posted: Sep. 05, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  mortgage fraud

A whistleblower claims there is evidence to believe Wall Street is once again engaged in some of the very practices that led to the financial crash of 2008. A whistleblower complaint Read More

• posted: Aug. 31, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• financial fraud,  SEC,  SEC whistleblower award

The most recent SEC whistleblower award was a $3.8 million bounty to a whistleblower who offered information to the agency that resulted in a successful enforcement action. As always, the information Read More

• posted: Nov. 08, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  fraud,  fraud settlement,  Dallas attorney

U.S. District Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein ordered PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. more than $625 million for negligence in an audit of Colonial BancGroup, Inc., a Read More

• posted: Sep. 24, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  whistleblower,  Dallas attorney,  SEC whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program allows eligible whistleblowers to obtain monetary awards when providing the agency with original information about securities violations, which may include financial fraud. Read More

• posted: Mar. 07, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• financial fraud,  FIRREA

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. - Thomas Jefferson Edward O'Donnell, a former executive at Countrywide Financial, Inc., may collect up to $1.6 million under an almost forgotten Read More