On Sept. 17, 2024, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri stressed the intense focus placed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on incentivizing companies to maintain healthy corporate compliance programs – and highlighted key aspects of the Department’s newest enforcement tool. Speaking at the NYU School of Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Argentieri emphasized the DOJ Criminal Division’s newly rolled out Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, which offers monetary rewards for whistleblowers who provide information about certain corporate misconduct that results in a successful criminal or civil forfeiture of more than $1 million.
Read on to learn more about key aspects of the three-year pilot program and the message DOJ intends to send to corporate executives and leadership teams.