All you really need to do is to get the information together in the form
of a simple report and give the report to the Board of Directors of the
non-profit. Just state the facts of the situation (not your
interpretations or speculations or opinions about it).
It is the Board of Director's job to oversee the public interest. If
they don't, that's their lookout (and source of fiscal and personal
liability) not yours.
As a member of a non-profit board of directors, I learned that one real
good...
"Outing" the organization or "blowing the whistle" to the "feds" without
telling the actual people in charge is not very kosher and would
probably be counter-productive.
mrgmhale wrote:
If you help conceal this, *you* could be charged with complicity.
Non-profits get federal money in the form of being tax deductible. If
they waste money, it is federal money being wasted.
Actually, I met with one of my attorneys for the very purpose of seeing
where I stood with a computer billing audit of a publicly traded company,
where I was aware of the company knowingly misbilling one of my clients, and
I was going to "discover" the misbilling during said audit. We are talking
over $300k in billing errors I found in total, with about $160k of it due to
the intentionally ignored misbilling. My Legal Counsel advised I could be
deemed a co-conspirator with the computer company if I did not divulge my
knowledge of the intentionally ignored misbilling to my client within a
certain period of time (I was well within that time period only because I
did advise one of the client's Sr Managers of the problem shortly after I
heard about it from an employee within the company).
I was quite surprised that by simply being aware of the billing error being
known and ignored by the computer firm I could be held partially responsible
for the misbilling and intentional failure to report the problem (except I
had reported it, nobody acted at that time within my client's company). So,
now the position I am taking when being fed "confidential information" is I
will respect confidential information to the point where I am not in legal
jeopardy myself. If I am in harm's way I withhold nothing, period.
So, I say that with respect to the Presidente's scam with his daughter
obviously skimming/wasting the Not For Profit's operation, gather the
supporting evidence and report it. Those are my tax dollars being wasted,
as well as yours and all other US citizens on the ProFox group. And,
knowing the issue for what it is you have a legal (and I would argue an
ethical) responsibility to report it. See qualified Legal Counsel to find
out what steps to take before doing anything else.
Gil
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Yet another consultant story.
Michael Madigan wrote:
Nope:)
Hi Michael!
Remember, John is a cop!
If you help conceal this, *you* could be charged with complicity.
Non-profits get federal money in the form of being tax deductible. If
they waste money, it is federal money being wasted.
You probably would qualify for whistle blower protection, however, so
don't worry.
Regards,
Pete
--- john harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Blow it up! Tell us who the non-profit is and the
url!
John Harvey
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