Whistleblowers take extreme risk. Which begs the question: why shouldn’t a whistleblower get an extreme reward for coming forward with incriminating evidence?

Without question, whistleblowers will be labeled as a rat, a pariah, and never to be trusted again with confidential information. So if their information pans out, the information they hand over rights a major wrong, why shouldn’t they get a comped life? Because, more than likely, they’ll be giving up any chance of earning a living in their chosen profession ever again.

And perhaps, finally, we’ve found a situation where Gordon Gekko’s infamous “Greed is Good” mantra finally works against Wall Street, rather than for it.

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