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New Whistleblower Rewards Program Includes Monetary Incentive

On July 8, 2025, the DOJ, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the USPS Office of Inspector General entered into a memorandum of understanding creating a whistleblower rewards program “to enable whistleblowers to report specific, credible and timely information about possible federal criminal violations.” The first of its kind, it creates a monetary incentive for whistleblowers to report criminal antitrust violations involving such conduct as price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation and even certain types of predatory conduct by monopolists.

6 minute read August 01, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Carl W. Hittinger , Jacqueline Romero and Tyson Y. Herrold
New Whistleblower Rewards Program Includes Monetary Incentive

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On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the USPS Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) creating a whistleblower rewards program “to enable whistleblowers to report specific, credible and timely information about possible federal criminal violations.”

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