article_title name known_for spouse employer education birth_name occupation
david p. weber
 david p. weber former exchange commission ; whistleblower ; professor at university of maryland assistant ; revealed compromise and hacking of u.s. stock exchanges by inspector foreign power -lrb- s -rrb- . general for the u.s. securities and julie goodwin weber goodwin business , university of maryland , college park weber pllc ; robert h. smith school of * justice ; '' cum laude '' , 1995 -rrb- syracuse university -lrb- utica college -rrb- -lrb- criminal david paul weber attorney investigator and lieutenant colonel , professor , certified fraud examiner , private
david p. weber

david paul weber is the former assistant inspector general for investigations at the u.s. securities and exchange commission -lrb- sec -rrb- .
weber was a whistleblower while at the sec , reporting allegations about foreign espionage against the stock exchanges , and concerning misconduct in the bernard l. madoff and r. allen stanford ponzi scheme investigations , the two largest fraud cases in the history of the united states .
he was terminated months later for supposedly unrelated reasons .
he sued the sec , claiming wrongful termination and retaliation against him for coming forward as a whistleblower .
in june 2013 , the sec settled with weber his whistleblower protection and u.s. district court lawsuits by reinstating him and paying him $ 580,000 , one of the largest federal whistleblower settlements in us history .
madoff and stanford , meanwhile , were sentenced to prison for terms of 150 and 110 years , respectively .
weber stated , after his reinstatement -lrb- and the incarceration of madoff and stanford -rrb- , that `` doing the right thing can be hard . ''
in 2014 , blogger larry doyle named weber as one of his `` top 5 whistleblowers '' .
