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Do whistleblowers receive some kind of protection if they are involved in the crime they snitch? AFAIK criminal organisations make sure that those with privile
by mrtksn 3y ago
Do whistleblowers receive some kind of protection if they are involved in the crime they snitch?
AFAIK criminal organisations make sure that those with privileged information get dirty as well, especially in the mafia making them commit a murder or something unforgivable. Sure, in a telco bribing public officials case this wouldn't be something drastic but all the people involved must be already corrupt. You don't pitch bribery as a business idea in an open meeting with the interns.
- fardo 3y agoWith $279 million, one would hope the recipient would have the inclination to throw together whatever security they felt necessary. Money makes a lot of problems go away - with this kind of money, one could buy a Hawaiian 10-20 million dollar home in a gated luxury community where access is gated and staff routinely patrol, pay the fully loaded cost of two 100$/hr personal armed guards for a 24/7 security detail ($876,800 per year each), and still have something like 100 million to spend on whatever you want before you die. If you’re a jilted businessman, sure, maybe you’re still willing to try something insane like hiring assassins or trying to get control of your security staff out of pure spite, but frankly, for every individual at the company besides perhaps the largest shareholders (who are actually the most risk-adverse people with regard to the danger of such a plan becoming public), it’s not actually their money and they’d rather just move on because it doesn’t affect their paycheck.
- kobalsky 3y agoGotta factor in that the IRS is gonna swipe 35-40% of that before it lands. Unless these awards are not taxed.