WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The IRS whistleblower program has awarded three whistleblowers the maximum 30% reward in the amount of $79 million for helping shut down a longstanding tax scheme. It is ...

In March, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a pilot program to incentivize individualized reporting was in development, which we reviewed here. True to its word, the DOJ's "Corporate ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 18: The Department of Justice (DOJ) building on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) In August the Justice ...

The House in April passed its version of the bill in a 346-10 vote. Provisions that are identical to the legislation are also ...

A proposed rule implementing the whistleblower program from U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) could significantly increase enforcement risk for companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday debuted its first-ever whistleblower program offering monetary awards to tipsters who report certain types of corporate misconduct, an ...

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Is it an exercise in unwarranted optimism or do they think it’ll really work? No one from the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey would talk with me about it, so the only information I have is their ...