1. Introduction
On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division”) announced that it is creating the Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program (the “Whistleblower Program”) in partnership with the U.S. Postal Service Inspection Service (“USPIS”) and U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (“USPS OIG”). The new program will, for the first time, offer monetary payouts to whistleblowers who voluntarily report to the Antitrust Division new information about potential criminal antitrust law violations, such as price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocation.
Historically, unlike other federal agencies and divisions of the DOJ, the Antitrust Division has relied on its Leniency Program, and not whistleblower rewards, to incentivize self-reporting of criminal antitrust violations. The new Whistleblower Program could change that. Below we outline the key aspects of the Whistleblower Program, how it intersects with the Antitrust Division’s existing Leniency Program and how it may affect criminal antitrust enforcement moving forward.
2. The Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program
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