On July 8, the Antitrust Division of the United States Justice Department (“DOJ Antitrust”) announced a Whistleblowers Rewards Program (“Program”) in partnership with another member of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, the U.S. Postal Service. The Program will allow for individual whistleblowers who report antitrust crimes to receive rewards in appropriate cases. The collaboration brings together DOJ Antitrust, the Postal Service, and its Office of Inspector General, as part of a larger initiative to crack down on antitrust conduct through agency collaboration. The Program is meant to solve traditional barriers to detection of hardcore antitrust crimes like price fixing and bid rigging.
In announcing the settlement, DOJ Antitrust noted that the Postal Service is a key partner in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting antitrust crimes and that the new program will incentivize individual reporting of antitrust crimes. Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said that the new program will create a “new pipeline of leads from individuals with firsthand knowledge of criminal antitrust and related offenses that will help” DOJ Antitrust break down the “walls of secrecy” that have historically prevented detection of antitrust crimes and related offenses. The Program is expected to help resolve issues with detection of hardcore antitrust conduct by incentivizing individual reporting to the DOJ with the prospect of a lucrative reward for whistleblower reports that...
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