As the public has witnessed, rampant Wall Street corruption can sink the world’s economy. Many of those corporate executives who manipulated our markets greedily cashed in while the rest of us saw our pensions, savings and even jobs evaporate. Thousands on the inside knew what was really happening, but only a small number of courageous whistleblowers tried to expose bank fraud and wildly speculative investment vehicles marketed as sound financial opportunities. Whistleblowers faced termination and legal liability for revealing corporate secrets. Financial leaders squashed them because the truth could undermine confidence and endanger the already teetering economy.
Government leaders, in turn, refused to reach out to whistleblowers based on the assumption that financial institutions were too big to either fail or prosecute.

With the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Congress essentially decreed that whistleblowers would be a vital part of new checks and balances of the financial system. These employees now enjoy significant whistleblower protections and even financial awards when they expose wrongdoing leading to monetary recoveries. But since Dodd-Frank’s passage, Big Finance has found new ways to strike back.

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Banks and financial corporations have developed numerous tactics to silence potential whistleblowers. Companies intimidate employees into signing nondisclosure agreements – gag-orders – that run afoul of whistleblower laws or require them to report wrongdoing to culpable company officials. Some banks have even threatened to bring criminal charges against employees who release company documents, even if they reveal illegal practices.

This is the time to say “NO!” We must not allow our nation to turn its back on whistleblowers who protect us from unscrupulous Wall Street practices that have caused so much financial damage to so many of us.

Please join this battle. Sign our petition in support of present and future financial whistleblowers. It asks the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to strengthen its Whistleblower Program and make clear that corporate efforts to chill potential whistleblowers from reporting unethical practices will not be tolerated.

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Louis Clark is GAP President & Corporate/Financial Accountability Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.