Announcement of Fraud Whistleblower Program

So today I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower

Incentive Program. Fraud Whistleblower

Incentive Program.

And, uh, mark those words.

Independent journalists and everybody and all Americans will now be able

to go to the fraud.gov and report cases of

corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities,

all via a new website created by Joe Gebbia,

who is fantastic by the way, and the team at the National

Design Studio. Everything Joe's done has been a big

success

for us. So here's what we're gonna be doing.

Anybody that can

prove that he turned somebody in, in other words, he or she, if you turn

somebody in

and you, let's say, report and you

find a billion dollars,

we are giving a commission to that person of

1%. It's a lot of money.

And if it's 10 billion,

200 billion,

400 billion,

uh, we're giving a 1% commission to that person.

You have to prove that you were the one and prove that it was you.

And I don't know if you can do this, but subject to the laws of our nation,

which I

feel very strongly about, if a reporter turns somebody in,

you have to get approval perhaps from your wonderful

newspaper. But if you turn somebody in, you get a

1% commission. You may turn it down or you may say, "I'm not gonna be a

reporter any longer. This is too easy." So if a reporter

turns somebody in, we're gonna continue the same 1%.

So

if somebody turns somebody in for a million dollars, but a million dollars

is very

small potatoes,

you get a 1% commission

subject to the rules of the nation, subject to all of the things, and we're

gonna let repu- the reporters

for the first time in many cases in your lives, you've done a good job.

Some are very professional journalists, but it's not, uh,

a very profitable thing to do. But it's a very important thing to do.

Very few things are more important than good journalism.

But we're going to, if they're allowed to do it,

if you can get approval from

your media outlet, whoever that may be, we're gonna let

the reporters partake because you know a lot of things that are happening,

maybe in many cases more than most others.

So I'm gonna add into that group of people reporters