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CLG achieves significant results that have drawn media attention

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• 2024: CLG Wins Over $5 Million for Multiple Whistleblowers

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In 2024, CLG successfully obtained over $5 million for multiple clients, reinforcing its reputation for maximizing whistleblower rewards.

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• 2023: CLG Wins Over $13 Million for Multiple Whistleblowers

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In 2023, CLG helped its clients collect over $13 million in 2023, demonstrating consistent success year after year.

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• Aug. 2023: Wall Street Journal Features CLG's Chris Connors

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In the WSJ article titled "SEC’s Whistleblower Chief Manages Growing Pains as Program Gains Popularity" (Aug. 14, 2023), the WSJ interviewed Chris Connors about faster SEC whistleblower claim processing times. The WSJ article can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the article). 

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• Dec. 2022: Record-Breaking $37+ Million Award

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CLG represented a whistleblower client who received the largest SEC whistleblower award of 2022 and the 7th largest in the history of the SEC Reward Program. The Wall Street Journal highlighted Chris Connors' role in securing that recording-breaking payout. The WSJ article states: "The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded more than $37 million to an individual for reporting information about a bribery scheme at a large European healthcare company. The sum is the highest award paid out to a single whistleblower so far this calendar year and one of the top 10 largest awards ever paid out by the SEC’s whistleblower program to an individual, according to the SEC. . . 'We have seen a sharp increase in recent years in increased investigative activity by the SEC and DOJ—especially involving whistleblowers—in the healthcare industry,' Christopher Connors of Connors Law Group LLC . . . who represent[s] the whistleblower, said in a statement." The WSJ article on the $37+ million award can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the article).

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• 2021: Over $7 Million for Multiple Other Whistleblowers

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CLG achieved more than $7 million in 2021 for multiple clients, in addition to the separate $3.5 million and $28+ million awards that year.

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• Aug. 2021: $3.5 Million Award for Whistleblower

 

CLG helped a client expand SEC investigations, holding Juniper Networks accountable and securing the maximum 30% reward. The Wall Street Journal highlighted Chris Connors' role in securing that recording-breaking payout. The WSJ article states: "​​The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded more than $3.5 million to a whistleblower whose tip helped the regulator expand an existing investigation that led to civil bribery charges against networking and cybersecurity solutions company Juniper Networks Inc. . . . The tipster . . . notified the SEC in late 2012 that Juniper was engaged in a large “channel partner discounting” bribery scheme in Russia, according to the whistleblower’s lawyer[], Christopher Connors of Connors Law Group LLC . . . . The whistleblower received the maximum award of 30%. . . . The whistleblower’s attorneys said there has been a recent trend of U.S. regulators holding technology companies accountable for their sales partners’ misconduct and rewarding whistleblowers who help expose it. 'In our opinion, this sort of sales partner bribery scheme still is pervasive throughout the technology industry in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East,' they said in a statement Tuesday. 'And we expect that other well-known technology giants will be held accountable in the not-so-distant future for the corrupt practices of their local sales partners.'" The WSJ published an article on the $3.5 million award can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the article).

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• May 2021: $28 Million Award – One of the Largest in SEC History

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CLG’s client received a $28 million award for providing tips that triggered investigations into international bribery. The Wall Street Journal highlighted Chris Connors' role in securing that recording-breaking payout. The WSJ article states: "​The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it awarded more than $28 million to a whistleblower whose tip helped the regulator and the Justice Department launch investigations that led to bribery charges against [Panasonic]. The SEC said the sum is one of the 10 largest awards paid out by its whistleblower program, which was created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. . . .The tipster . . . notified the SEC about alleged wrongdoing at the company in countries in Asia and Europe, prompting the regulator to open the investigation, according to the whistleblower’s lawyer[], Christopher Connors of Connors Law Group. . . . The award 'shows the SEC’s continued commitment to rewarding [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] whistleblowers under the program,' . . . Connors . . . said in a statement, noting that this was the third SEC whistleblower award related to FCPA violations [his] clients received in the past few years." The WSJ article on the $28 million award can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the WSJ article). Reuters also published an article on the CLG client's $28 million award which can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the Reuters article).

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• Sep. 2020: $1.8 Million Award for CLG Client

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CLG’s client received a $1.8 million award for providing tips that triggered investigations into international bribery. The Wall Street Journal highlighted Chris Connors' role in securing that $1.8 million payout to a single CLG whistleblower client.The WSJ article states: "The tipster, a doctor in Brazil, provided information to the SEC about an alleged kickback scheme operated by an Orthofix subsidiary in that country, according to . . . Christopher Connors of Connors Law Group LLC . . . . The SEC initially set the award percentage in the Orthofix case at 15%, according to the lawyers. But the regulator increased the percentage this week to 30% of the $6 million FCPA settlement payment, consistent with the updated rules, [Mr.] Connors . . . said." The WSJ article on the $1.8 million award can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the article).

• May 2019: CLG Client Wins $4.5 Million Award.

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On May 24, 2019, the SEC issued a $4.5 million award to one of CLG's Brazilian FCPA whistleblower clients because that client anonymously alerted the company (Biomet) that it was continuing to use corrupt distributors to win government business. The Wall Street Journal published an article on the $4.5 million award, which can be seen here. Bloomberg also published an article on the award stating: "The [CLG client] will get the money for playing a crucial role in helping the Securities and Exchange Commission uncover a bribery scandal at Biomet Inc. that spanned the globe, his attorney[] Christopher Connors . . . said in a Friday statement that didn’t identify the doctor by name. 'Today’s award will spur many would-be foreign whistleblowers to come forward now that they know that the SEC is committed to rewarding whistleblowers' for tips tied to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act anti-bribery law, said Connors . . . ." The Bloomberg article can be seen here. In its press release, the SEC explained: “This is the first time a claimant is being awarded under this provision of the whistleblower rules, which was designed to incentivize internal reporting by whistleblowers who also report to the SEC within 120 days.”

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• May 2019: Award Claim in Half-Billion Dollar Teva Settlement 

 

CLG represented a whistleblower client in connection with the U.S. government’s $519 million Teva settlement, showcasing the firm’s expertise in high-stakes international cases. The media outlet Global Investigation Review (GIR) highlighted CLG’s pivotal role, noting that Chris Connors also “represented a whistleblower in a foreign bribery probe into German healthcare firm Fresenius, which recently settled FCPA charges for $231 million”—with a mandatory 10-30% reward in that case ranging from $23.1 million to $69.3 million. The article further emphasizes Mr. Connors’ global reputation for representing FCPA and anti-corruption whistleblowers, stating: “Connors will be well-known to FCPA defense lawyers and prosecutors alike [seeking] to corner the market of FCPA whistleblowers.” The GIR article can be seen here (click here for a PDF of the article).

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• Feb. 2019: CLG Client Triggers Quarter Billion Dollar Settlement. 

 

See S. Rubenfeld, German Dialysis Firm Reaches Agreement in Bribery Probe (Wall Street Journal, Feb. 25, 2019) (explaining how a CLG client's "anonymous whistleblower complaint" led to a massive settlement over $200 million). Click here for a PDF of the article and here for the link to it.

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• Aug. 2018: CLG Whistleblower Payout Estimated Between $3–14 Million

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CLG clients consistently earn top-tier rewards, even amid delays in SEC processing, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. See D. Michaels, SEC Whistleblower Payouts Slow Amid Deluge of Reward Seekers (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 5, 2018) (noting delay in the SEC award claims process but explaining that, after such delay, a CLG whistleblower client is set to get a "payout anywhere from $3 million to $14 million"). The WSJ article is here (click here for a PDF of the article).

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