| Some keep working: >And three whistleblowers, all represented by Jordan Thomas, were awarded a total of $83 million. >Even now, does Merrill Lynch know who the whistleblowers were, who your clients were? >THOMAS: No, they don't. >GOLDSTEIN: Wow. >THOMAS: The same with JP Morgan. If we do our job well, our clients can and do continue working at the organizations in which they reported even though they could buy an island. Some of them like working, so they keep working. >GOLDSTEIN: I mean, not to be glib, but there is the, like, hey, Bob (ph), how'd you show up in a Lamborghini today? Well... >THOMAS: (Laughter) Yeah. No, some people don't show their money. >GOLDSTEIN: Yeah. Yeah. >THOMAS: And this - they - yeah, I call them secret millionaires, you know, people who won a whistleblower award but choose to keep working. >GOLDSTEIN: At the same firm. >THOMAS: Yeah. It does happen. People's relationship with their work is in some ways like family after a period of time, and breaking it off is hard. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/728001911 |