Puerto Rico United States Attorney’s Office Announces Whistleblower Pilot Program

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the Puerto Rico United States Attorney’s Office has launched a Whistleblower Pilot Program designed to encourage early and voluntary self-disclosure of criminal conduct by individual participants in certain non-violent offenses.

In exchange for such self-disclosure and cooperation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will enter into a non-prosecution agreement where certain specified conditions are met, including, importantly, the condition that the government was not previously aware of the criminal conduct that is the subject of the disclosure. By providing clarity on the requirements of the benefits of such self-disclosure, we seek to incentivize individuals (and their counsel) to provide actionable and timely information. That will, in turn, help us bring more misconduct and criminal activity to light and better protect the communities we serve.

“Although other U.S. Attorney’s Offices have recently issued a similar policy, this new program follows on the message that this United States Attorney’s Office and our federal law enforcement partners have been stressing publicly for the past several years,” said U.S. Attorney Muldrow.  “Full and complete early cooperation with federal authorities will be rewarded and is essential to our public service mission of rooting out fraud and public corruption and making our communities safer and stronger.”

Copies of the Whistleblower Pilot Program memorandum outlining this new policy, as well as a related Intake Form, are attached herewith and can also be found on the United States Attorney’s Office public website, located at https://www.justice.gov/usao-pr. In order to begin the whistleblower process under this program, the Intake Form can be sent via email to USAPR.WBP@usdoj.gov.

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