The DOJ’s Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program 2025
Description: This hour-long educational session explains the Department of Justice’s new initiative that offers monetary awards to individuals who report antitrust violations involving fraud, including mail and wire fraud. Rewards can be up to 30% of the criminal fines collected in cases resulting from the whistleblower’s information. The presentation features two highly regarded attorneys with successful whistleblower and antitrust litigation practices.
Agenda:
- Origins of Whistleblower Laws: How the False Claims Act and similar statutes created the framework for incentivizing insider reporting.
- Whistleblower Process and Protections: Filing under seal, government investigations, and anti-retaliation provisions.
- Antitrust Enforcement Basics: Key statutes such as the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, and FTC Act, and how they apply to anti-competitive conduct.
- Details of the DOJ Program: Who qualifies as a whistleblower? Types of violations covered, including price-fixing, bid-rigging, and market allocation schemes. How to submit information and the role of confidentiality. Calculation of awards and coordination with existing DOJ leniency programs.
- Strategic Considerations: Interaction with other whistleblower programs, ethical issues, and potential constitutional challenges.
- Enforcement Trends: Current DOJ priorities and the role of whistleblowers in detecting cartels and other anti-competitive practices.
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Julie Keeton Bracker is a nationally recognized False Claims Act attorney with nearly two decades of experience representing whistleblowers and exposing fraud against the government. A former defense lawyer turned relator’s advocate, she co-founded Bracker & Marcus LLC, a firm dedicated to “doing well by doing good.”
Dan Mogin is a nationally respected antitrust litigation attorney with decades of experience leading and shaping major competition cases across the United States. As managing partner of The Mogin Law Firm LLP he has served as lead and liaison counsel in numerous high-profile antitrust and unfair competition class actions. Dan also has experience as author and lecturer on this complex area of law.