Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a press release Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Postal Service had given its first-ever reward to a whistleblower under a new policy launched in July.
“This enabled us to dismantle a $16 million fraud scheme that was cheating American consumers,” Bondi said in a post on the social platform X.
The $1 million reward was given in conjunction with the Postal Service because the whistleblower’s intelligence included an alleged scheme that involved sending documents through the mail. The whistleblower, unnamed by the DOJ, gave information leading to criminal and antitrust charges being levied against EBlock Corporation, an online auction company for vehicles.
“Whistleblowers serve as the Justice System’s greatest disinfectant against criminal antitrust conspiracies,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Omeed A. Assefi of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said in the release. “A car is the second largest purchase most Americans will make in their lifetimes. This whistleblower helped expose a brazen $16 million scheme that made it more expensive for hardworking Americans to afford second-hand cars across the country.”
EBlock Corporation, as a result of the acquisition of another company, allegedly engaged in “the placement of fake bids intended to artificially increase the sales prices for used vehicles,” according to the release.
As a result, EBlock Corporation will receive a $3.28 million fine...
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