The US Securities and Exchange Commission has canceled its meeting to vote on proposed rule changes to its whistleblower program.
According to the SEC’s open meeting website, the meeting, previously scheduled for October 23rd, is “Cancelled.” It is reported that the meeting will be rescheduled for November.
SEC Whistleblower lawyer Stephen M Kohn, a founding partner at Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of the National Whistleblower Center, is leading efforts to convince the SEC Commissioners to reject all of the anti-whistleblower proposals. Over the past two weeks, Kohn, representatives from the National Whistleblower Center and Sherron Watkins, the ENRON whistleblower, met with all of the Commissioners and/or their staff to discuss the importance of the rule changes, and how they may impact whistleblowers and enforcement.
Kohn says: “This is good news for whistleblowers. The proposed rule changes could undermine the highly successful SEC whistleblower program. At stake is the future of the SEC’s ability to effectively use whistleblowers to police securities fraud and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We welcome the postponement of the October 23rd meeting. It is vitally important that the SEC understands all of the issues and gets this rulemaking right.”
