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Today President Trump announced a new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program that effectively crowdsources the search for fraud and corruption, rewarding people for tips that lead to criminal charges.
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This includes the announcement of a new web site to report incidents of fraud:
I think this is a wonderful solution to a whole bunch of problems.
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I was told my whole life about waste, fraud and abuse, but it has only grown until Trump.
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Being a whistleblower can be very dangerous. What's going to happen to me when I blow the whistle on a fradulent deal to which powerful people in the Trump administration are a party? Blowing the whistle on an opponent of the reigning administration is a lot less dangerous.
Nobody has ever solved this problem for whistleblowers, and this move brings us no closer than any other.
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An official reward for uncovering fraud is absolutely a win.
Of course, the party in power might ignore their own fraud. And we saw that; there *were* whistleblowers in Minneapolis, their complaints were ignored, and they faced all sorts of workplace retaliation, HR investigations, denied promotions, and so forth.
But a reward for whistleblowers is a really big win when the party in power does not have fraud as an integral component of their business model.
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How is this superior to the False Claims Act?
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Brief summary of the differences:
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