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vxNsr on July 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: SEC issues $3.8M whistleblower award

A whistleblower is someone with inside knowledge, often enough on it's own to convict, those non-anonymous reports didn't contain that info.

thaumasiotes on July 15, 2020 [–]

A person meeting that description would not be "sniffing out" anything.

sjs382 on July 15, 2020 | | [–]

godzillabrennus probably meant "snuff out". Let's not get hung up on that bit.

V-eHGsd_ on July 15, 2020 | | [–]

they would be helping the SEC sniff it out though.

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