On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the USPS Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) creating a whistleblower rewards program “to enable whistleblowers to report specific, credible and timely information about possible federal criminal violations.” The first of its kind, it creates a monetary incentive for whistleblowers to report criminal antitrust violations involving such conduct as price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation and even certain types of predatory conduct by monopolists. The program supplements the DOJ Antitrust Leniency Policy and the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act (ACPERA). While those other programs offer the prospect of amnesty and limited civil liability for certain corporations and persons who have engaged in anticompetitive conduct, the whistleblower rewards program is designed to encourage anyone with information about antitrust violations to report them—and perhaps get paid in the process.
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