On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the Division) announced a new program that could provide monetary payouts to individuals who report criminal antitrust violations. The program, described in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) among the Division, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), will be a partnership among those agencies, building upon the Postal Service’s pre-existing involvement in antitrust investigations. Maximum rewards under the program could amount to 30% of any criminal fine. Following another year of relatively minimal criminal antitrust fines, Abigail Slater, Assistant Attorney General for the Division, stated that the program is intended to “create a new pipeline of leads from individuals with firsthand knowledge of criminal antitrust and related offenses.”

To be eligible for a financial reward, the reported conduct must:

• Be Submitted by an Individual. Only individual whistleblowers are eligible to collect a reward. Though a whistleblower may have participated in the violation, they must not “clearly” be the “leader or originator of the activity.” It is not clear what kind of protections a whistleblower may receive where they participated in the reported conduct or how this would affect eligibility for any reward. Additionally, the conduct must be originally reported; if the Division is already aware of the conduct through a leniency applicant or otherwise, the reporter will...

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