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Whistle While You Work: The Fairytale-Like Whistleblower Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act And The Emergence Of "Greedy," The Eighth Dwarf, Lucienne M. Hartmann

Mercer Law Review

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) is arguably the most sweeping and significant expansion of financial regulatory reform since the Great Depression. The Act, stimulated by Congress's perceived failures of government banking regulations, is intended to promote financial stability in the United States. Amidst the Act's thousands of pages are a handful of sections that significantly enhance the awards and protections available to whistleblowers. Among other things, the Dodd-Frank Act's whistle-blower bounty provisions and protections gives a hefty award to whistleblowers, strengthens and expands the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley), creates …