The Justice Department's fraud whistleblower program received thousands of tips within days, according to a report from Fox News. The outlet attributed the figure to a Trump official, and its headline links the flood of tips to the launch of a cash incentive.
Fox News reported that the official, Colin McDonald, also disclosed what the summary calls a novel upfront payment approach. The summary does not describe that approach in detail, so this account does not say how the payment works, when it is made, or how much it may be.
The report does not give a total count of tips, the number of days over which they arrived, or any figures on how many led to cases. The summary says only that the program received "thousands of tips in days."
The account rests on a single outlet's summary of the remarks. No Justice Department statement or reporting from other outlets was available to confirm the figures or the timing.
The headline presents the rise in tips as following the cash incentive's launch. The summary describes the tips as arriving within days, but it does not compare them with tip volumes before the launch, so the link between the two is not established by the material reviewed here.
Sources: Fox News: DOJ flooded with thousands of fraud tips after cash incentive launch, Trump official says.