- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Jeff Dale2024-03-07T21:07:00
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the Department of Justice will look to fill gaps in its whistleblower procedures with the launch of a 90-day sprint toward a DOJ-led pilot whistleblower reward program.
In remarks delivered at an industry event Thursday, Monaco said whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission don’t address the full range of corporate and financial misconduct that the DOJ prosecutes.
Both programs are “limited in scope” to agency jurisdiction under the Dodd-Frank Act, Monaco said, while the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act only cover fraud against the government.
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