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Apr 9, 2018 · Updated April 9, 2018. David Danon says "on multiple occasions" that he warned his boss that Vanguard Group was underpaying its taxes. Nearly five years after he left Vanguard Group, David...
Oct 14, 2023 · 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, indicating they had reached a settlement in mediation.
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Jun 9, 2023 · by Joseph N. DiStefano. Published Jun. 9, 2023, 3:04 p.m. ET. 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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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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Jul 29, 2022 · Published Jul. 29, 2022, 1:21 p.m. ET. Former Vanguard lawyer David Danon has asked a federal court to speed a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling on his nine-year-old request to be named a whistleblower, so he can try to get paid for sharing data he says cost him his job.
Apr 14, 2017 · The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit remanded former Vanguard in-house counsel David Danon’s lawsuit back to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 12. The appeals court ruled that an issue of fact remains to be determined by the district court concerning Dannon’s claim of retaliatory firing ...
Federal court in Philadelphia should reconsider tax lawyer David Danon’s complaint that he was fired by investment giant Vanguard Group in 2013 as retaliation for telling his Vanguard bosses and government agencies that the company underpaid its income taxes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
