{"id":2734,"date":"2023-09-27T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seci.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:37:29","slug":"yes-violating-whistleblower-protection-rules-is-an-enforcement-hot-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/yes-violating-whistleblower-protection-rules-is-an-enforcement-hot-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Violating Whistleblower Protection Rules Is an Enforcement Hot Topic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/another-violation-of-whistleblower-protection-rules\/\">a prior blog post<\/a>, we reviewed a September 8, 2023, Enforcement Order against Monolith Resources, LLC based on the company violating the SEC\u2019s whistleblower protection rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than two weeks later, on September 19, 2023, the Enforcement Division added to the growing list of these cases with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2023-184\">announcement<\/a> that CBRE, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYSE-listed CBRE Group, Inc., had also violated the whistleblower protection rules.\u00a0 \u00a0In its separation agreements CBRE Inc. had included language requiring employees to attest \u201cthat they had not filed a complaint against CBRE with any federal agency.\u201d\u00a0 After the SEC commenced its investigation, the company took strong remedial steps.\u00a0 In settling the case CBRE, Inc. paid a civil penalty of $375,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read more in the related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2023\/34-98429.pdf\">SEC Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a prior blog post, we reviewed a September 8, 2023, Enforcement Order against Monolith Resources, LLC based on the company violating the SEC\u2019s whistleblower protection rules. Less than two weeks later, on September 19, 2023, the Enforcement Division added to the growing list of these cases with an announcement that CBRE, Inc., a wholly-owned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/yes-violating-whistleblower-protection-rules-is-an-enforcement-hot-topic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, Violating Whistleblower Protection Rules Is an Enforcement Hot Topic!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[261,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enforcement","category-hot-topic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}