The whistleblower's unending story

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailymail.com/News/200804260179

By ADAM GELLER

AP National Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The guest lecturer steps to the front of classroom 322 with a lesson plan, but not from any textbook.

Instead, Dave Welch comes with a story to tell, edgy and very personal. The names have been changed, he says, "to protect the guilty.''

He directs students to the corporate financial forms projected on to a screen. Years ago, working at a small-town bank in the Virginia mountains, Welch combed through these figures and saw things that made him suspicious.

When he confronted the bank's president with his doubts, it cost him his job.

The story might have ended there. But this time -- months after titanic scandals capsized Enron and WorldCom -- things would be different.

There ought to be a law, Congress decided, protecting workers who expose what might be the next Enron. Who could've imagined the fight between the little bank and the fired accountant would become the new measure's most unlikely -- and most strenuous -- test?

More than 1,000 self-professed whistleblowers have come forward since.

FULL story at link.

[lib2DaBone]

1. GO ahead..Be a Whistle Blower

The American Public Does not want to hear it. You can have facts, figures and video tapes. You can't beat the game when it is loaded from the inside. (analogy) Even if you have video tape of Geoge Bush screwing a chicken.. the headlines will read, "President Bush Fosters animal husbandry".
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