> Feinberg and her lawyers received an eye-popping $69 million from the settlement. Her share — around $40 million before taxes, hit her family bank account last week, said Feinberg, 39. “I’ve got three kids, and I tell them, ‘Doing the right thing is the right thing, no matter what the outcome is,’” said Feinberg
As JP Morgan said, a man always has two reasons to do something, a good reason, and the real reason.
I like that quote but JP Morgan may well have been projecting his own motivations onto others. You don't get to be JP Morgan without engaging in some amount of duplicity.
There is big money in whistleblowing, if your claim makes it through the gauntlet-- otherwise it's just a career-ending humiliation.
It's a lot of risk for a mother of three to assume; I'm sure she expected something (the DoD posters in the breakroom suggest as much) but I doubt she knew what the eventual payout would be from the start.
As JP Morgan said, a man always has two reasons to do something, a good reason, and the real reason.