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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a whistleblower program that would give potentially large rewards to anyone who reports antitrust crimes. The crimes typically involve ...

Cartel conduct tends to occur in secret. As a result, the Antitrust Division has long focused on augmenting its abilities to identify conspiracies and to incentivize self-reporting of conduct that may ...

Awards have the potential to be significant. Whistleblowers with qualifying information are eligible to receive at least 15%—and up to 30%—of the recovered criminal fine, depending on various factors ...

The DOJ’s new Whistleblower Rewards Program, launched in 2025 with USPS, offers cash rewards (15-30%) for reporting antitrust crimes affecting the postal service. It aims to incentivize insiders to ...

The qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) allow whistleblowers to assist with the federal government’s ...

A restructuring of OSHA's Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program (OWPP) tasks OSHA head Dr. David Michaels with overseeing the program, which previously reported to OSHA's Directorate of ...

The new Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, which was created in 2012 to advise, consult and make recommendations to improve OSHA’s whistleblower protection programs, will meet for the first ...

The House passed bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Internal Revenue Service's Whistleblower Awards Program and provide ...

As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama promised to strengthen whistleblower laws for federal workers by speeding up the review process of claims, and granting whistleblowers full access to jury trials ...

Whistleblower rewards programs should be seen not as moral incentives but as a practical tool that helps regulators expose ...