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Corporate crime Give a little whistle 公司犯罪 揭发 The SEC offers a huge carrot to encourage whistle-blowers 美国证券交易委员会高额悬赏鼓励举报人 TOO many people remain silent in the face of fraud, says Mary Schapiro, the chairman ofAmerica s Securities Exchange Commission . On May 25th she announced newrules to encourage corporate whistle-blowing. Inducements will include cash: 10-30% offines of over $1m that result from tip-offs. The US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby,calls it a bounty programme that will reward amateur sleuths in search of a big payday .It is threatening legal action to block it. 太多人在面对欺诈行为时选择了沉默。 美国证券交易委员会主席Mary Schapiro感叹道。5月25日，她公布了鼓励举报公司犯罪的新规定。举报的奖励将会包含现金：如果举报产生了100万美元以上的罚款，那么举报人可获得罚款金额的10-30%。企业游说组织美国商会将其称作 赏金计划 ，奖励那些盼着一夜暴富的业余侦探。其威胁性会导致有人采取法律行动来阻止这一计划。 The new rules were required by the Dodd-Frank act, Congress s response to the financialcrisis, which was passed last year. They follow an earlier effort to encourage employees tospeak up. After Enron, an energy firm, collapsed in a flurry of fraud, Congress passed theSarbanes-Oxley act in 2002 which, among other things, protected whistle-blowers fromretaliation. | 
