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A Review of Recent Whistleblower Developments – Q3 2024

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On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, first announced earlier this year. Through the pilot program, the DOJ may issue awards to whistleblowers who...more

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DOJ ‘Upping the Ante’ for Corporate Self-Disclosure with New Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

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Earlier in 2024, DOJ’s Criminal Division announced a new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program granting whistleblower awards to individuals who provide information in four priority areas. ...more

White & Case LLP

DOJ Launches New Whistleblower Pilot Program

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In March 2024, we published an alert regarding Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) Lisa Monaco’s announcement that the US Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) intended to design and implement a new whistleblower...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

New DOJ Corporate Whistleblower Awards Program Pits Company Compliance Programs Against the Clock

The Department of Justice announced a Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program on August 1, 2024. If a whistleblower voluntarily reports original, truthful, and complete information to DOJ in a relevant subject...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DOJ Implements New Whistleblower Reward Program

Companies who submit healthcare claims to private payors, provide financial services to customers, interact with domestic or foreign public officials, or otherwise operate in highly regulated industries should take note that...more

Epstein Becker & Green

DOJ Launches the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

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On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) launched the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), a three-year initiative managed by the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recover...more

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DOJ Criminal Division Announces Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

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In her remarks to the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco outlined the forthcoming whistleblower program that seeks to fill in the gaps of existing...more

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DOJ Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program

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DOJ has introduced the new three-year Pilot Program, managed by the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, effective August 1. Under this Pilot Program, whistleblowers meeting certain criteria may be...more

Perkins Coie

DOJ Announces Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program and Introduces 120-Day Window for Corporate Self-Disclosures

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department) announced its much-anticipated Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program on August 1, 2024. This three-year pilot will, for the first time outside of the False Claims...more

K&L Gates LLP

Department of Justice Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Corporate Whistleblower Awards Program

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After months of anticipation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled the details of its new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (the Corporate WB Program or the Program)....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

DOJ Debuts Pilot Corporate Whistleblower Awards Program

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Criminal Division announced its new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program on August 1, 2024. The Pilot Program incentivizes whistleblowers to provide information to the DOJ so...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

DOJ’s New Whistleblower Program Incentivizes Individuals and Corporations to Disclose Wrongdoing

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just launched the new corporate whistleblower awards pilot program that it previewed this past March. ...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

DOJ Launches New Whistleblower Incentive Program

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DOJ’s pilot program aims to fill gaps in existing federal whistleblower programs and incentivize prompt corporate self-disclosure alongside individual whistleblower tips. Following the March 2024 announcement of its...more

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DOJ Announces it is Designing a Whistleblower Rewards Program

In early March 2024 at the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco’s keynote remarks previewed the development of new and significant Department of...more

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DOJ Official Cites Old West ‘WANTED’ Posters in Announcement of New Whistleblower Monetary Awards Program

On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will test out a program to pay whistleblowers if they provide information on serious financial crimes and foreign and...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

“Call Us Before We Call You”: SDNY Creates New Individual Self-Disclosure Program

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On January 10, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) introduced the SDNY Whistleblower Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), aimed at encouraging individuals to disclose...more

Holland & Knight LLP

DOJ Announces Significant Policy Changes Affecting Corporate Criminal Enforcement

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In back-to-back speeches to the American Bar Association's National Institute on White Collar Crime on March 2-3, 2023, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General...more

McDermott Will & Emery

DOJ Announces Major Changes to Corporate Compliance Program Evaluation Criteria

During speeches on March 2 and 3, 2023, at the American Bar Association (ABA) National Institute on White Collar Crime (the 2023 White Collar Conference), Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

New DOJ Corporate Enforcement Policy Places Still More Pressure on Companies to Cooperate and Self-Report

Last month in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., announced revisions to the Department of Justice’s Corporate Enforcement Policy, to apply to all corporate...more

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DOJ Policy Increases Incentives for Self-Reporting of Potentially Willful Trade Violations

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The Situation: The U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") has issued guidance revising its 2016 voluntary disclosure policy to provide companies stronger incentives to voluntarily self-report apparent potentially willful trade...more

Butler Snow LLP

2019 Developments and Trends in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) & Global Anti-Corruption Efforts, Part 2 of 3

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Previously, we introduced you to this topic and provided updates about the positive international trends in anti-corruption efforts, bribery, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Today, we...more

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DOJ Loosens Prohibition on "Ephemeral Communications"; SEC Does Not

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The Situation: Most companies have faced challenges in finding the right balance between their information governance programs and their employees' use of technologies that do not permit retention of communications....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - March 2019 #2

Unexpectedly, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a new initiative to encourage non-registrants to self-report foreign corrupt practices, which it claimed might also constitute violations of laws and rules it...more

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CFTC Announces Further Incentives For Self-Reporting, Cooperation For Unregistered Individuals And Entities, While Highlighting...

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On March 6, 2019, the head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC’s”) Enforcement Division, James McDonald, announced a new policy related to the benefits of self-reporting foreign corrupt practices-related...more

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CFTC Issues Enforcement Guidance to Encourage Self Reporting of FCPA Violations

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On March 6, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published an Enforcement Advisory describing the circumstances in which companies that self-report violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”)...more

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