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http://www.cracked.com/article_21043_5-terrible-things-i-learned-as-corporate-whistleblower.html5 Terrible Things I Learned as a Corporate Whistleblower
By: Robert Evans, Linda Almonte
April 07, 2014 149,118 views
On November 30, 2009, Linda Almonte was escorted out of her office by security. (We know -- no big deal, it happens to you every time you slip needles into the NERF darts. Stupid nanny state.) The difference here is that Almonte did nothing wrong: She was an executive with JP Morgan Chase, and her only mistake was doing her job and blowing the whistle on her lawbreaking boss. For the last five years, her life has been a morass of lawsuits and private detectives. Here's what we learned:
The following article is based on a Cracked interview with Linda Almonte.
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4. Even if They're in the Wrong, They'll Still Hold You Accountable for Everything
JP Morgan wanted to sell a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of debt to a debt buyer. I looked into it just a little and realized that most of these people had settled their debts, or their cases were dismissed by courts, or balances were outdated or inflated, and so on. This doesn't mean we'd have been screwing over the collections agencies, though. They didn't care if the debt info we gave them was out of date or incorrect, because the bank is in the clear either way: When they sell your personal information, they put "as is" at the top of the contract like it's the windshield of a crappy used car.
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3. They Will Hunt You to the Ends of the Earth
In the first few weeks after the shitstorm broke, I was on the front page of the New York Times. In October of 2010, my house was transformed into a 60 Minutes set. It was a whirlwind of media that still hasn't stopped. The family really enjoyed our time working with 60 Minutes. We enjoyed the ensuing constant life-ruining surveillance substantially less.
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You get used to that kind of heavy surveillance, but you shouldn't. My elementary school-age daughter was leaving school one day and a teacher overheard her saying to one of her friends, "Oh God, I hope that van doesn't follow me home today." Being a responsible human adult, that teacher flipped out. I was in New York for a meeting and got a call -- but she was no longer concerned about the van. No, my daughter had very matter-of-factly explained that it was just Chase tailing her home and it was no big deal. The teacher found that terrifying: No 11-year-old's reaction to a freaking black van tailing her should be blase acceptance.
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"5 Terrible Things I Learned As a Corporate Whistleblower" (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Apr 2014
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. And the guilty roam freely. nt
tech3149
(4,452 posts)4. And should anyone wonder why an NSA whistleblower takes off? n/t
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)8. I'd do the same in their shoes. nt
Zorra
(27,670 posts)2. K&R nt
underpants
(182,904 posts)3. Great scary read
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)5. K&R.
Attorney General Holder, where are you? What are you doing? Come out from under that table and do your job.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)6. k and r.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)7. K & R !!!
a must read..
WillyT
(72,631 posts)10. HUGE K & R !!!
Seema Sapra
(17 posts)11. I am a General Electric whistleblower in India
Please read http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/
I am a lawyer who has filed a whistle-blower corruption petition against General Electric Company in the Delhi High Court in India. The matter is Writ Petition Civil No. 1280 of 2012 in the matter of Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Others