Who is The Whistleblower?
A study of 233 whistleblowers—the largest study on this topic ever conducted—found that the average whistleblower was a family man in his 40s with a strong conscience and high moral values. After blowing the whistle on fraud, 90 percent of the whistleblowers were fired or demoted, 27 percent faced lawsuits, 26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical care, 25 percent suffered alcohol abuse, 17 percent lost their homes, 15 percent got divorced, 10 percent attempted suicide, and 8 percent were bankrupted. But in spite of all this, only 16 percent said that they would not blow the whistle again. The Whistleblower is the story of one such person, who gambled everything by telling the truth.