On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Antitrust Division (the “Division”) announced a new Whistleblower Rewards Program (the “Program”) in collaboration with two unlikely partners: the United States Postal Service, and the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (collectively the “Postal Service”). The Program creates, for the first time in U.S. antitrust enforcement history, a monetary incentive for individuals to report criminal antitrust violations that result in monetary recovery or fines of over $1 million. In recent remarks from September 2025, Deputy Assistant Attorney General (“DAAG”) for Criminal Enforcement Omeed Assefi reiterated the Division’s more aggressive approach to criminal antitrust enforcement, signaling it as a priority area for antitrust enforcement.
The Program also serves as a continuation of two broader enforcement trends both in the DOJ holistically and at the Division specifically. First, it serves as just the latest example of the DOJ’s expansion of whistleblower awards to supercharge detection of criminal misconduct that was first announced in August 2024, then expanded in May 2025. Second, within the Division, it continues the focus of using antitrust enforcement to combat crimes and related schemes impacting the U.S. government that started in 2020 with the establishment of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (“PCSF”).
The Program only covers what it calls allegations of an “Eligible Criminal Violation”—...
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