"The new Whistleblower Rewards Program will create a new pipeline of leads from individuals with firsthand knowledge of criminal antitrust and related offenses that will help us break down those walls of secrecy and hold violators accountable."
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) has officially launched its first-ever Whistleblower Rewards Program through a memorandum of understanding with the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the USPS Office of Inspector General. This new program offers monetary rewards of up to 30 percent of criminal fines recovered for individuals who provide information leading to successful antitrust prosecutions of at least $1 million in fines. The DOJ has established reporting methods and will evaluate submissions and determine awards with the assistance of the USPS Office of Inspector General. USPS will pay the rewards.
The Antitrust Division’s Whistleblower Rewards Program is the latest effort by the DOJ to expand the scope of matters and programs incentivizing alleged whistleblowers with financial rewards. On August 1, 2024, the DOJ Criminal Division announced a Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program. DOJ sought to fill some “gaps” in the “scope of corporate crime” covered by the False Claims Act qui tam program, and the whistleblower programs of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. On May 12, 2025, the DOJ under the current administration...
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