On May 12, the Head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Matthew R. Galeotti, announced that the DOJ Whistleblower Program has added a number of priority areas for tips which align with current administration’s priorities.

According to Galeotti, the new priority areas are

• “procurement and federal program fraud;
• trade, tariff, and customs fraud;
• violations of federal immigration law; and
• violations involving sanctions, material support of foreign terrorist organizations, or those that facilitate cartels and TCOs, including money laundering, narcotics, and Controlled Substances Act violations.”

These areas were added to the official revised guidelines for the Department of Justice Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program.

“We have made changes to our corporate whistleblower program to reflect our focus on the worst actors and most egregious crimes,” Galeotti stated.

The DOJ Whistleblower Program was established in August 2024. While the program’s framework falls critically short of some proven best practices for whistleblower programs, it offers monetary awards to insiders who provide original information which lead to successful forfeitures.

When the DOJ announced its plans for the whistleblower program, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco stated the program “would fill the gaps in [the] patchwork” of successful corporate whistleblower programs, such as those administered by the SEC, IRS and FinCEN.

The original subject areas of the DOJ...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQNWtTSm9yRXdhZEJ1WTJuYU0w...