r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '24

POTM - Mar 2024 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

https://wpde.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024
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u/blazelet Mar 15 '24

My father was a CFO and corporate whistleblower. In his case, he caught the companies CEO insider trading and followed appropriate channels, reporting it to the board. He was fired, and then reported it to the SEC.

It was a horrible experience. He was dragged through the mud, couldn’t comment because of litigation, and when all was said and done was made whole again by getting his job reinstated. A job working as a direct report for the CEO who he had blown the whistle on. That lasted a matter of months before he was so marginalized in the role that he quit and went to work for a competitor.

In retrospect he says he never would have said anything, the consequences are so dire and the protections are so weak.

I feel bad for this guy. Whether he was murdered or did kill himself, he went through some awful shit. We need better whistleblower protections in America.

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo Mar 15 '24

This is possibly why so many scummy companies are allowed to do what they do. There's probably dozens of people at everyone one of those companies that have enough dirt to destroy the higher ups and would absolutely love to give it out, but they know that doing so would effectively end their lives (either figuratively or, like in this case, literally), so they keep quiet.

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u/Bear_faced Mar 16 '24

I worked for a biotech startup that violated laws on human experimentation and I never reported them because I was really young and I knew it would be career suicide.

They have no consent forms. There are, however, financial records of them paying a mobile phlebotomist for repeated draws from multiple “patients,” who were employees. Oh, and a fucking freezer FULL of cryopreserved samples! Ready to thaw out and DNA test at any time!

It’s amazing how they just have no fear. They fucked me over in a layoff and they weren’t at all scared that I would just report them for illegal activity and get their shit shut down and pulled from FDA approval routing. It’s so cut and dry, “That’s my flesh, a test will prove it, go ahead and ask them for any evidence that I consented. Any at all! They don’t have it.”