Stephen Kohn on the Justice Department Plan to Offer Whistleblower Awards

This article contains commentary from founding partner Stephen M. Kohn.

Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the Department of Justice will launch a whistleblower awards program.

“We hope that the Department will follow the lead of the SEC and CFTC and establish a central whistleblower office that can accept anonymous and confidential complaints. Such a program has been required under the anti-money laundering whistleblower law for over three years, but the Justice Department has simply failed to follow the law,” said whistleblower lawyer Stephen Kohn, who also serves as Chairman of the Board of the National Whistleblower Center.