The DOJ’s new Whistleblower Rewards Program, launched in 2025 with USPS, offers cash rewards (15-30%) for reporting antitrust ...

While incentivizing self-reporting and cooperation, the new policies significantly broadened the scope of the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, announced in August 2024. Originally limited ...

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is one of several federal statutes that establish prohibitions and requirements related to ...

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 ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) received more than 200 whistleblower tips since it launched its long-awaited Corporate Whistleblower Awards (CWA) Pilot Program on Aug. 1, according to the program’s ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a new 'whistleblower' program that includes a Web site for people to report securities violations and apply for a financial award. The new program, ...

Since its launch in 2011, the SEC Whistleblower Program has been a resounding success—but gaps still remain, a co-chair of Outten & Golden's whistleblower practice writes. Earlier this month, U.S.

The CFTC whistleblower reward program offers monetary payouts to people who report violations of the Commodity Exchange Act. Claiming CFTC whistleblower rewards is done on the outcome of a successful ...

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One of the most effective and inexpensive methods of monitoring the pulse of a business is to create a confidential whistleblower hotline. According to the 2008 Association of Certified Fraud ...

Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious conflict of interest between ...

THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has moved to tighten its campaign against investment scams, predatory lending, market manipulation and other forms of financial misconduct with the release ...