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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:45 AM
To: questions
Subject: Stop Wall Street Lobbyists from Destroying Whistleblower Protections!
Ivan Petric
15180 Copeland Way
Spring Hill, FL 34604-8130
November 22, 2010
Gary Gensler
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Three Lafayette Centre
1155 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20581
Dear Chairman Gensler:
I am deeply concerned that the whistleblower rules the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are currently drafting will not fulfill the Congressional intent of Dodd-Frank. I am also concerned that the corporate lobby will have undue influence on the final rules to protect whistleblowers and the American public.
I am particularly concerned with admissions by the SEC that their proposed rules would 'limit the pool of eligible whistleblowers,' 'reduce the number of possibly useful informants,' 'discourage some whistleblowers,'
cause 'persons not to come forward,' and result in 'forgone opportunities for effective enforcement action.' These are not the rules that Congress intended as protections. These rules clearly violate the intent and spirit of the law and greatly undermine the public interest.
The SEC's proposed rules completely undermine efforts to protect employees who risk their careers to expose fraud, waste, and abuse. Incredibly, not only does the SEC admit that their rules undermine the legal protections in Dodd-Frank, but the SEC has failed to adopt the recommendations of their own Inspector General on how to improve their whistleblower reward program. The SEC's proposed rules are so flawed that they must be discarded in their entirety and should be replaced with rules that conform with the recommendations of the SEC's Inspector General.
The CTFC should also not blindly follow any of the SEC's recommendations and instead should write rules that will encourage whistleblowers to report any and all commodities fraud, waste, and abuse.
Wall Street has been a mean street for any employee who has had the guts to step forward to report securities and/or commodities fraud. As a result, every American has suffered from this Wall Street financial meltdown, but mostly investors. The SEC and the CFTC must write rules that will prevent another financial disaster, ensure compliance with the law, and encourage employees to risk their careers by becoming whistleblowers of waste, fraud, and abuse.
The SEC's proposed rules will have the opposite effect. Please do everything in your power to ensure that the SEC withdraws its current proposal and approves final rules that protect the public. We cannot afford to have the SEC fail to detect the next Bernie Madoff, costing innocent Americans billions of dollars. Congress, the SEC and the CFTC must do what the law now requires: protect whistleblowers that risk their jobs to report fraud!
Your expedited cooperation in this matter is appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ivan Petric
352-797-4906
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