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Federal law enforcement agencies including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) rely heavily on whistleblowers to help them uncover violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)...more
Filing a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act (FCA) is one way that whistleblowers can help the federal government hold companies accountable for fraud, waste, and abuse. The federal government relies heavily on...more
On 28 November 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its annual report on whistleblowing disclosures and updated its guidance titled “Information for Whistleblowers”. While the guidance itself remains unchanged, the...more
The Budget 2025 introduces a series of targeted measures to strengthen the UK's approach to economic crime and fraud enforcement. While these changes are incremental rather than transformative, they reflect the government's...more
In the November 2025 Budget, the UK government confirmed that His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be introducing a “US-style” whistleblower incentive scheme (Scheme) in the UK....more
I. Introduction - The IRS Whistleblower Program is one of the most powerful — and financially rewarding — tools in the U.S. enforcement system. Created to help expose serious tax fraud, evasion schemes, and large...more
The Expanding Reach of Whistleblower Protections - In recent years, whistleblower protection laws have evolved significantly across both public and private sectors. Enhanced enforcement by agencies such as the Securities...more
On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Antitrust Division (the “Division”) announced a new Whistleblower Rewards Program (the “Program”) in collaboration with two unlikely partners: the United States Postal...more
A recent suit illustrates how whistleblowers may adversely impact a company’s DPA, leading to further investigation by the DOJ and additional penalties. In 2023, Connecticut-based Freepoint Commodities LLC (Freepoint)...more
In September 2025, the U.S. Attorneys’ Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA) announced that it would be implementing a White-Collar Justice Program to strengthen its white-collar enforcement framework....more
This new program marks a significant development at the intersection of whistleblower law and antitrust enforcement. Accomplished whistleblower attorney Julie Keeton Bracker of Bracker & Marcus and Dan Mogin, a veteran...more
Signaling a more aggressive approach to criminal antitrust enforcement, DOJ’s Antitrust Division is ramping up its first-ever whistleblower rewards program in partnership with the USPS and the USPS OIG, launched in July 2025,...more
The Northern District of California Views From the Top: Hot Issues & Trends in White Collar, Securities & Antitrust Enforcement event on Sept. 4 provided an invaluable and uncharacteristically candid look at the priorities...more
The Whistleblower Rewards Program is implemented in partnership with the USPIS and USPS OIG and is intended to strengthen the DOJ’s ability to detect and prosecute both antitrust violations and related offenses....more
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division launched its first monetary whistleblower rewards program in partnership with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The program offers potential monetary rewards...more
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that, for the first time, it will offer rewards to individuals who report antitrust crimes and related anticompetitive offenses....more
Early in July, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division launched a program to reward whistleblowers. What does this mean for you and your compliance program?...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has expanded the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (CWAPP) to include corporate immigration violations, thereby incentivizing whistleblowers to report such violations. What is...more
Employers are facing a new risk related to immigration law non-compliance: incentives for immigration whistleblowers. The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently amended the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (CWAPP)...more
Individuals now have a new incentive to blow the whistle on an antitrust cartel—the possibility of a monetary reward. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has established its first whistleblower rewards...more
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) has had a busy first half of the year announcing a first-of-its-kind antitrust whistleblower program, new indictments, and several sentencing and fine decisions. Below is a...more
The Trump Administration continues to surprise many observers by taking antitrust enforcement seriously. The latest initiative, announced on July 8, 2025, creates an avenue for rewarding individuals who report antitrust...more
A recent article by Bloomberg Law highlighted a significant shift in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approach to whistleblower claims. The article, “Whistleblower Awards Slow to Trickle as SEC Raises Bar on...more
On July 8, 2025, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS) and U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), announced the launch...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent weeks unveiled a newly created whistleblower rewards program within its Antitrust Division and an expanded whistleblower rewards program with the Criminal Division. The announcements...more