On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced a new program to provide rewards to individuals who report antitrust violations related to the Postal Service. This is the first program of its kind to provide a monetary reward to individuals who assist in the prosecutions of antitrust crimes. Under the new initiative, whistleblowers will have the opportunity to receive up to 30% of any criminal fines recovered for violations affecting the Postal Service, its revenues, or its property.
The Division said that the whistleblower program will incentivize individuals to report “specific, credible and timely information” about illegal agreements and create a pipeline of leads from people with firsthand knowledge of criminal antitrust offenses and will help the Division “break down those walls of secrecy and hold violators accountable.”
Historically, the Division principally relied upon its leniency program to incentivize reporting of wrongdoing by those involved in criminal antitrust offenses. This new program expands upon those efforts to identify and prosecute collusion by targeting whistleblowers rather than those individuals who participated in potentially unlawful conduct. However, unlike the leniency program, individuals who report wrongdoing through the whistleblower hotline will not have any of the protections and benefits of leniency.
As part of the new program,...
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