A new Department of Justice program that offers cash rewards to whistleblowers will give employees an additional incentive to take allegations of misconduct straight to the feds, bypassing internal ethics hotlines companies count on to ferret out suspicious behavior before it becomes a crisis.

It “creates the risk of disincentivizing internal reporting,” said Carolyn Small, special counsel at Jenner & Block and a former assistant U.S. attorney.

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