- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Jaclyn Jaeger2024-04-10T16:48:00
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to join a growing list of U.S. federal agencies to have a whistleblower reward program in place, but how impactful it will be at generating more white-collar investigations and prosecutions rides on its initial design, according to whistleblower experts.
Last month, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the DOJ will develop and implement a whistleblower reward pilot program within the next 90 days, with a formal start date of later this year.
Other agencies’ whistleblower programs, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are “limited in scope,” Monaco said. “They only cover misconduct within their agencies’ jurisdictions,” she said.
2024-06-05T19:14:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The Department of Justice’s 90-day sprint to developing and implementing a pilot whistleblower rewards program ended Wednesday, and many questions remain about what the program will entail.
2024-05-23T15:35:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Compliance Week Advisory Board members Eric Young and Ellen Hunt participate in a debate-style discussion regarding whistleblower-related topics including culture of compliance, monetary incentives, retaliation, and more.
2024-04-29T11:39:00Z By Neil Hodge
The European Union’s strong stance on whistleblower protection has been undermined by member states’ wildly different approaches to punishing organizations that fail to safeguard people who raise concerns, says Wirecard whistleblower Pav Gill.
2025-06-09T15:18:00Z By Neil Hodge
The buzz around generative AI has reached fever pitch over the past few years—to such an extent that it’s practically a death knell for any company to say it’s not investing massively in gen AI to transform their business. There’s only one problem: many companies are either being misleading or ...
2025-05-30T18:06:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
A new law in Texas will go into effect next January that requires Apple and Google to verify the age of their app store users. This marks another piece of legislation from the state level intended to protect children, and the second such law specifically from Texas to limit children’s ...
2025-05-23T16:46:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Thousands of computers and other consumer electronic devices imported into the U.S. that were certified as safe by foreign laboratories have been identified as having links to the Chinese government or military, Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said Thursday in announcing an order to close the security ...
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