(“Pilot Program”), promising potential monetary awards to individual whistleblowers who provide original and truthful information that results in successful forfeiture. The Pilot Program, which will run for three years, was originally announced by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco at the American Bar Association’s 39^th National Institute on White Collar Crime in March. The program will run alongside the DOJ’s Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals, which began in April.

The program is modeled after whistleblower programs run by the SEC, CFTC and FinCEN and seeks original information about corporate misconduct not covered by those programs. The focus is on crimes involving financial institutions and their employees, foreign corruption involving privately held companies and others that are not issuers of U.S. securities, domestic corruption involving misconduct by companies or health care fraud schemes involving private insurance plans. To receive an award under the program, the whistleblower must:

• Be an individual and ineligible for award under a different U.S. government or statutory whistleblower program;
• Provide truthful and complete information, including any details about their own role in the misconduct;
• Not have meaningfully participated in the criminal activity they are reporting;
• Not be an official, employee, or contractor for the DOJ or be the spouse, parent, child or sibling of an official, employee or contractor for the DOJ at the time...

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