Senators Charles Grassley, Ron Wyden, Roger Wicker and Ben Cardin introduced the bipartisan IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act which provides critically needed reforms to ensure that employees who risk their careers to report large scale tax frauds are fully protected.
In the 2022 Fiscal Year FY 2022, U.S. Department of Justice DOJ recovered only $776 million in False Claims Act FCA whistleblower cases. FCA whistleblower cases where DOJ did not intervene resulted in record $1.1 billion in recoveries.