We have given an overview of what can befall a whistleblower. You can file this under "life is not fair" (if you haven't figured that out already) but what is obvious is that doing the right thing does not always make a person a hero. In fact, the consequences from being a whistleblower can not only be life-changing, they can be hazardous.
The only advice I can give here is the obvious - get competent legal counsel before attempting to be a whistleblower. A competent white collar criminal attorney can guide you through the process.
Yeah, I suppose I am doing some in-house advertising with this post, but this is not done out of a way to get my name out there (OK, who am I kidding, of course it is), but because I have literally seen dozens of people attempt to do the right thing without counsel and find themselves in trouble up to their neck. I cannot stress this enough - if you work for a corporation, and you are attempting to be a whistleblower against this corporation because you discovered fraud, in some way you probably helped the corporation commit the fraud in the first place, even unknowingly. This means that you are part of a conspiracy.
Blowing the whistle on corporate fraud is not the same thing as stopping a robbery in progress (and I don't advise doing THAT unless you have significant REAL martial arts experience and/or military or police experience and are armed yourself). Corporate fraud does not take place in a vacuum - there are always a group of people involved, once again either intentionally or unintentionally. Thinking you can be a hero and expose corporate fraud without consequences or repercussions is a one-way ticket to a disaster.
I don't want to discourage anyone from doing the right thing. But, I want potential whistleblowers to do the right thing in the right way.
The only advice I can give here is the obvious - get competent legal counsel before attempting to be a whistleblower. A competent white collar criminal attorney can guide you through the process.
Yeah, I suppose I am doing some in-house advertising with this post, but this is not done out of a way to get my name out there (OK, who am I kidding, of course it is), but because I have literally seen dozens of people attempt to do the right thing without counsel and find themselves in trouble up to their neck. I cannot stress this enough - if you work for a corporation, and you are attempting to be a whistleblower against this corporation because you discovered fraud, in some way you probably helped the corporation commit the fraud in the first place, even unknowingly. This means that you are part of a conspiracy.
Blowing the whistle on corporate fraud is not the same thing as stopping a robbery in progress (and I don't advise doing THAT unless you have significant REAL martial arts experience and/or military or police experience and are armed yourself). Corporate fraud does not take place in a vacuum - there are always a group of people involved, once again either intentionally or unintentionally. Thinking you can be a hero and expose corporate fraud without consequences or repercussions is a one-way ticket to a disaster.
I don't want to discourage anyone from doing the right thing. But, I want potential whistleblowers to do the right thing in the right way.
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