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In October 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that, in return for voluntarily providing original, timely, and credible information and corroborating documentation that led to the successful enforcement of federal securities laws, a whistleblower was awarded more than $1 million. The information provided by the whistleblower — whose name and other identifying

In October 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a pair of related lawsuits — one against Hillsboro Beach, Florida attorney James M. Schneider, and one against Nevada City, California attorney Andrew H. Wilson — alleging that the two attorneys helped facilitate a microcap fraud scheme being perpetrated by a trio of businessmen

In October 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged mining company Rio Tinto, its former CEO Thomas Albanese, and its former CFO Guy Elliott, with fraud for falsely overstating to investors the value of coal assets the company had acquired. While the company had raised $5.5 billion from U.S. investors and spent $3.7