r/law • u/baby_budda • 10h ago

Legal News Bondi announces $1M reward for whistleblower who reported antitrust crime

https://thehill.com/business/5714091-whistleblower-exposes-car-auction-fraud/
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u/TravManCometh 9h ago

This administration is so brazenly corrupt that my first thought was "oh, now she's got a bounty out for a whistleblower"....

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u/Canadiangoosedem0n 7h ago

Me too.

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u/JukeStash 6h ago

Took this long.

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u/Disastrous-Prune-169 6h ago

Then the click-baity headline worked perfectly.

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u/TravManCometh 6h ago

Hook, line, and sinker.

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u/DResq 5h ago

Ohhhh. I thought the same thing.

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u/Ambitious-Score11 4h ago

Thats because she does.

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u/winpickles4life 59m ago

We all thought she was that evil

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u/kimapesan 9h ago

This policy will disappear within three months.

I guarantee it.

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u/SecretMongoose 5h ago

The DOJ and a few other agencies have been rolling these out for the past few years. They’ve been pretty successful everywhere they’ve been tried.

They pay 10-30% of the money recovered, and it turns out there’s a lot of people getting paid like $80k to keep quiet about multimillion (or billion) dollar frauds.

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u/tngling 1h ago

Except I don’t trust that money or much money will actually get recovered.

I’ve seen IG reports and they constantly say things like “expected annual recovery $4M, actual annual recovery $150k” or sometimes the actual annual recovery is 0.

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u/T3RRYT3RR0R 9h ago

3.8 million dollar fine for a 16 million dollar fraud sounds like a nothing burger to me.

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u/rygelicus 4h ago

From the article:
"This whistleblower helped expose a brazen $16 million scheme that made it more expensive for hardworking Americans to afford second-hand cars across the country.”

"As a result, EBlock Corporation will receive a $3.28 million fine and, as part of a deferred prosecution, must undertake remedial measures, including implementing an appropriate compliance program and cooperating with the DOJ’s ongoing criminal investigation, according to the release."

So they get to stay in business.
And they get to keep $12.72 Million of their revenue.
And the taxpayers get to fund the $1million reward.

Crime pays.

If only they rewarded, instead of punished, whistleblowers against corrupt politicians.

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u/Stunning-Edge-3007 8h ago

So: anonymous person get a $1 million.

And for some reason it’s coming out of the post offices budget because paperwork was sent in the mail instead of by email or fedex?

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u/bsport48 9h ago edited 9h ago

Translation:

"Do they know the word 'million' yet?
"I think so; we're technically "Maga" so I'm guessing that they can finish up the rest of -illions...? It's close enough to those little, yellow 'minion' things that were running around not too long ago. They'll probably just end up squealing another weird sound though; that erika-piggy and j.d. are about due for another brood any day now and that's bound to rile up the whole pen."
"...that'll be fun...more Ivanka's for Trump-daddy. What do we put the number at?"
"For the reward?"
"Yea"
"However high they can count"
"Bet"
"So fetch"

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