“Part of the idea here is that by incentivizing either whistleblowers or people who have criminal exposure to come forward to the Criminal Division, that ratchets up the pressure on companies to come forward as soon as they find out about potential misconduct in their ranks.” - An unnamed senior Department of Justice official as told to Fortune magazine.
In the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) latest policy in furtherance of its “carrots and sticks” approach to corporate criminal enforcement, senior leadership of its Criminal Division announced a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals. The program is designed to aid in the investigation and prosecution of “criminal conduct that might otherwise go undetected or be impossible to prove, and will, in turn, further encourage companies to create compliance programs that help prevent, detect, and remediate misconduct and to report misconduct when it occurs.”
To qualify for a Non-Prosecution Agreement (“NPA”), an individual must voluntarily self-disclose original information about criminal misconduct, including the complete extent of their own role in it, fully cooperate with investigators, and satisfy the following conditions:
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