Date | 25 February 2025
Location | Live Online via Microsoft Teams
In this webinar, co-hosted with our training partners the London Governance & Compliance Academy (LGCA) and the European Institute of Management and Finance (EIMF), we will delve into the U.S. Department of Justice’s new Corporate Whistleblower Awards (CWA) pilot program with its first Acting Director, Patrick Gushue. This session will explain how the program works, how whistleblowers can report corporate crime to U.S. authorities, and what individual whistleblowers and companies they can expect under the program.
The CWA, which focuses on a number of areas including foreign corruption, bribery, and criminal schemes by financial institutions, is poised to transform corporate compliance across a number of industries worldwide.
This session provides essential information for corporate officers, risk and compliance practitioners, and others interested in learning more about whistleblower incentives, protection, and enforcement.
Speaker
Patrick Gushue
Acting Director | Department of Justice (DOJ)
Patrick Gushue is Acting Director of the Department of Justice (DOJ) new whistleblower program, the Corporate Whistleblower Awards (CWA) Pilot Program. He is also a trial attorney with the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section’s Bank Integrity Unit (BIU) in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. The BIU investigates and prosecutes criminal offenses involving financial institutions and their officers, employees, and agents. Patrick previously served as a civil trial attorney in the Tax Division at DOJ, deputy speechwriter to former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and an enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Patrick received his law and undergraduate degrees from Georgetown University.
