Okay… do you not feel culpable at some point? Do you feel no obligation to expose these various individuals fleecing the tax payers? Your boss, the academics, and everyone else who participated or knows and remains silent. Obviously, you are now in the later group.

Yes I know it’s not all that rare, BECAUSE people can’t be bothered to blow the whistle.

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post-it an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Now that you know, do you feel culpable?

	▲	jayd16 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm supposed to dox this person or something? What are you asking exactly?
	▲	tzs 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He just knows that someone on HN who is not using their real name has described witnessing government fraud at some unspecified point in the past and reporting it to the head of the project. He doesn't have any information about where it occurred other than probably the United States. He's not really in a position to act usefully on this information, so had no reason to feel any culpability for not acting. It is only an interesting question when put to people were in a position where they had to make a choice.

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jiddert8 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everyone's fleecing the taxpayer. We have low-trust societies in the West now. If you're playing by the rules, you're a sucker.

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Der_Einzige 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

Honestly, having been to high trust places like Singapore for a decent amount of time - it's better to live in a low trust society. Singapore is easily one of the most boring, sad, depressing places on earth despite it being on paper a paradise according to education, health care, etc rates.

High trust in society correlates strongly with being anti-innovative. Europe is going through another lost decade in a row because it got too addicted to social democracy. The fastest growing parts of Europe are some of the lowest trust (i.e. Poland). Please fleece the tax payer more.

	▲	sitkack 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What is your favorite western? Fist full of dollars or GBU ?

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tokioyoyo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Easier to say than do.

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comrade1234 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was too risky. My boss was scummy and even though I had documentation about my hours being edited he would have fought it and we'd go to court and at that point it'd be a crap shoot. If I remember right, the prison time was five years and there is no parole with federal sentences.

	▲	Buttons840 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		To prevent this situation the peons should be given the benefit of the doubt by the courts. In this case, either (1) the peon was lying about reported hours, the boss didn't notice, and then the peon reported himself... or (2) everything happened just like you said. Aren't there bounties for reporting things like this? At the very least winning should include reimbursement for legal expenses.