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On Sept. 30, Vanguard and David Danon, a tax lawyer fired by the company 10 years ago, agreed to the dismissal of Danon’s wrongful-termination complaint in federal court in Philadelphia,...
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Sep 4, 2014 · Who is David Danon, and what drove him to take on his old bosses at Vanguard Group Inc., alleging that its nearly $3 trillion in assets were built on an illegal tax strategy?
Apr 9, 2018 · Nearly five years after he left Vanguard Group, David Danon, the investment giant’s former tax lawyer, has given his most complete account of his attempts to warn the Malvern-based company...
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Danon, a former in-house tax counsel for the Vanguard Group, makes similar claims in his July petition over the SEC’s lengthy delay in his case. He filed a whistleblower complaint in May 2013, around the time Vanguard fired him over what he claims were his internal complaints over an illegal “slush fund” set up to avoid taxes and harm its investors...
In court documents and interviews, attorneys argue that the agency’s secrecy and inconsistency hurt the program. Maybe some seemingly contradictory denial and award decisions are justified, but because the orders and decisions are all done in secret, there is no way to make sure the awards are impartial, they argue. When cases are appealed, SEC sta...
To be sure, some huge awards have gone to whistleblowers. In September 2021, a client of former SEC senior counsel Rebecca Katz, now at Motley Rice, received $110 million, and another of her clients received $36 million. Clients of former SEC assistant chief litigation counsel Jordan Thomas, who helped create the whistleblower program before going ...
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Jun 9, 2023 · Ten years after lawyer David Danon says he was fired after reporting illegal tax-avoidance schemes to his supervisors at the Vanguard Group, he and the company have agreed to mediation to try to settle his wrongful termination lawsuit.
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Apr 12, 2018 · Nearly five years after he left Vanguard Group, David Danon, the investment giant’s former tax lawyer, has given his most complete account of his attempts to warn the Malvern-based company of...
