Whistle While You Work: The US Treasury’s New Reward Program for Sanctions Whistleblowers.

Jason Zuckerman is Principal of Zuckerman Law in DC, where he represents whistleblowers worldwide in whistleblower rewards and retaliation matters, including disclosures of sanctions evasion to OFAC. His firm has successfully represented whistleblowers disclosing accounting fraud, Ponzi schemes, market manipulation, FCPA violations, Medicare fraud, and medical device fraud.

Prior to founding Zuckerman Law, he served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Special Counsel at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency charged with protecting whistleblowers in the federal government. He has served on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee and has volunteered with the Anti-Fraud Coalition, Government Accountability Project, National Employment Lawyers Association, and other organizations to strengthen whistleblower reward programs and whistleblower protection laws

Nell Williams joined FinCEN’s Office of the Whistleblower as a Senior Enforcement Officer in June 2022, where she is helping stand up the office after it came into existence in May 2021. Prior to joining FinCEN, she worked in OFAC’s Enforcement Division for four years, investigating sanctions evasion schemes involving various industries in the financial and non-financial sectors, and conducted outreach to industry and other law enforcement agencies. Prior to her work in the Dept. of the Treasury, Nell worked as an analyst for four years at the Government Accountability Office, where she evaluated federal programs, including multiple programs at the Dept. of Defense.

Nora Gvozdov is a Section Chief in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control where she oversees a team of Enforcement Officers charged with analyzing violations of U.S. economic and trade sanctions programs, detecting sanctions evasion techniques, and identifying deficiencies and best practices with respect to OFAC sanctions compliance programs. She also manages and overseas the Whistleblower program. Nora joined OFAC in 2003 as a Sanctions Investigator and later spent 12 years as a Section Chief within the Office of Global Targeting where she led counter-narcotics targeting efforts in close partnership with domestic and international law enforcement agencies. She has also worked on the Burma, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Zimbabwe sanctions programs.

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.

Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.