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You do realize that if you were the manager of travel expense reimbursements and you allowed that to happen, that YOU could be prosecuted by the company?...that the company could pin all the blame on you if you report them to the IRS?
Thanks for the response. Would you happen to know what type of an attorney would be best suited for me to have a consultation with? A criminal attorney? A tax attorney? A general corporate attorney?

There is no blame to pin. I started working at the firm, found out what was going on, and advised my manager (within my first month of employment). He, in turn, advised upper management (CFO, HR Director, CAO).

I documented everything I found. Every penny I found I took back from each employee who fraudulently took the funds. But I didn't see everything because the volume was too much for one person to handle. In a 6 month audited period, for example, I recovered $15,000 from one person. But there were 200 persons with expense reimbursements. I only saw about 30% of all reports. Not all cheated, but those who did were either very, very clever about it or tremendously stupid about it. No middle ground.

I no longer work there, obviously.

So, I believe my actions would not consitute negligence or in any way my being an accomplice to the situation, as I made the company aware of every penny I found, explained why it was illegal/fraudulent, and recovered the funds from the 'bad' employees. I made my manager aware the firm had been filing tax returns with overstated expenses. They ignored me, plain and simple.

I happened to read I could get a piece of the pie if I turned in the company and the employees, and I wanted to check it out here in this forum.

I think I did everything correctly to protect myself, but if I'm wrong, please let me know. I would do this anonymously, and they would know it was me, obviously. I'm more interested in the individual employees who stole from the firm. Not so much the firm itself, but would do it if it was worth it.