Wheres the Whistle-blower Protection?
“Whistle-blower protection is mostly only for civil situations, and there is very little or no legal protection for a whistle blower who commits a crime. My lawyer told me she was quite certain that had I been a Diebold employee working at a Diebold office, and had seen and stolen those documents from Diebold rather than from their lawyers, it would be very unlikely that I would ever be criminally charged. I certainly would have been fired, but I would never have been charged with a crime – no DA would have taken the case. “I try to be as objective as I can about this. I do acknowledge not only that I committed a crime but that I had to be punished in some way for the crime. If I had been allowed to violate attorney-client privilege without any accountability, it could have possibly weakened attorney-client privilege and made it easier for someone else to steal attorney-client privilege documents and get away with it. “However, I think they killed a mosquito with a sledge hammer; misde
“Whistle-blower protection is mostly only for civil situations, and there is very little or no legal protection for a whistle blower who commits a crime. My lawyer told me she was quite certain that had I been a Diebold employee working at a Diebold office, and had seen and stolen those documents from Diebold rather than from their lawyers, it would be very unlikely that I would ever be criminally charged. I certainly would have been fired, but I would never have been charged with a crime – no DA would have taken the case. “I try to be as objective as I can about this. I do acknowledge not only that I committed a crime but that I had to be punished in some way for the crime. If I had been allowed to violate attorney-client privilege without any accountability, it could have possibly weakened attorney-client privilege and made it easier for someone else to steal attorney-client privilege documents and get away with it.
