DOJ Rolls Out Corporate Whistleblower Pilot Program - WilmerHale
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On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice officially launched a three-year pilot program to reward whistleblowers who report corporate misconduct.1 Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco previewed this whistleblower program in March 2024 at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime in San Francisco, explaining that DOJ would use its existing authority to pay awards for information or assistance leading to civil or criminal forfeitures to reward whistleblowing.2 On August 1, DOJ presented the details of a three-year pilot program, the “Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program,” that will compensate whistleblowers providing original and truthful information to DOJ’s Criminal Division relating to certain crimes, if that information is not already covered by other agencies’ whistleblower programs and leads to a successful forfeiture.3
The DOJ’s August 1 Guidance lauds the success of existing federal whistleblower programs at the SEC, CFTC and FinCEN , but notes that “other agencies’ whistleblower programs do not cover the full scope of corporate crime the Department investigates and prosecutes, leaving gaps that the Department now seeks to fill.”4 In a...
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