announcement in March 2024 of a plan to offer whistleblower awards.

Under the Program, whistleblowers who voluntarily provide the Criminal Division with original and truthful information about corporate misconduct that results in a criminal or civil forfeiture greater than $1 million are now eligible for a financial award. The award may be up to 30% of the first $100 million in net proceeds forfeited and up to 5% of any net proceeds forfeited between $100 million and $500 million.

Any award is subject to specific eligibility criteria, discussed below, and requires, among other things, a whistleblower’s cooperation. The Program complements another pilot program launched early this year that offers nonprosecution agreements to qualifying individuals who voluntarily disclose information about the same kinds of offenses.

Together, the programs reflect the DOJ’s continuing efforts to incentivize individual reporting and thus encourage companies to implement effective compliance programs and make their own disclosures of potential misconduct.

Eligible Information Must Relate to Specified Crimes

The Program is modeled on the highly successful programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). To be eligible for an award, a whistleblower, alone or jointly with others, must provide information related to crimes that are not covered by other whistleblower award programs:

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