Investors Are Entitled To Whistleblower Protection From the SEC

July 27, 2021 | The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement

Earlier this month in “Companies Better Not Tread on Whistleblowers’ Right to Report,” I discussed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s action against Collector’s Coffee, Inc. and its CEO Mykalai Kontilai, and suggested that it might indicate the expanded reach of whistleblower protections under SEC Rule 21F-17(a). This week, a federal judge in New York issued an order in that case, (Securities and Exchange Commission v. Collector’s Coffee, Inc., No. 19 Civ. 4355 (VM)) confirming that Rule 21F-17(a) protects not only whistleblowing employees, but investors as well.

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