Brett Terrible, your department supervisor, hates you for informing the federal government that he has been taking advantage of his position as the Controller at a publicly traded company to embezzle its funds. As part of his scheme, he sends international wire transfers to secret Swiss bank accounts. He then covers up this embezzlement by labeling the associated disbursements as Bank Fees Expense.
Rather than lower your wages and financial benefits, he simply has given you unchallenging job assignments in the hope that you will quit out of boredom. He confided in an email to a friend that, by "thwarting you from proving financial harm, you won't be able to touch him." You have obtained a copy of this email, but you know realistically that hiring a lawyer to sue him would be prohibitively expensive.
a. Is there a way for you to ensure that Brett will be punished?
b. Would your answer be the same to the above question if your company was privately-owned by a single entrepreneur?
c. Would your answer be the same to the above question if your company was a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the prevention of climate change?