Late Night Post: Should I send my boss to Jail?

[Porcupine]

My current employer is a very, very, bad man. He is in real estate, property management to be precise. Over the course of the 2.5 years I have worked for him he has done a great number of unethical and fraudulent things. Broken most of the laws and regulations regarding standards of practice in his profession.

Currently I am the last of the Mohicans. I am the last office employee left of the group that was present when I was hired. We have seven desks, two are occupied by my boss and his daughter; we have had seventeen staff members rotate through the other five since I was hired.

A few ex-coworkers and I have decided it is time to grow a conscience. We are documenting all of the various illegalities, major and minor, that our employer has involved us in and are trying to decide. Should we report in full and send his butt to jail?

Most of these are various kinds of fraud, tax evasion, double-billing, mismanagement of trust accounts, multiple violations of licensing laws, mishandling of properties and responsibilities and many, many, cases of just plain screwing tenants over.

Our employer would constantly claim that the current period was a crisis because X left or Y emergency, health crisis, or rush was happening. Then they would claim that as soon as the crisis was over we would get back to a normal mode of doing business.

Of course this never happened and staff would either quit or be fired when contrary to policy they decided to obey the law and give people the money they deserved or tell owners the damn truth about their properties. Now it's my turn on the chopping block. I've survived by being an excellent field trouble-shooter and maintenance guy and was generally left to do my thing and fix problems as they came up. Lately my honesty is beginning to wear on management as I insist that services paid for should be delivered. Go figure.

As the license holder and executive officer of the company the ax falls on him. So what do you think? Turn him in to the IRS, the Department of Real Estate, OSHA, the courts and the local press or let him keep on?

[Random_Australian]

1. I say yes, send him to gaol. Or, in other words, get him charged with

everything, and let the courts decide if this is gaol-worthy. Which it probably will be.

Edit: Aussie spelling is supposed to be changing from "gaol" to "jail". Not for me, yet.

[AutumnMist]

2. Keep The Documentation Coming!

Fraud is fraud and being taken advantage of is never a good(or legal)thing. The people on the other side of your employers "emergencies" have most likely suffered from his greed and ill will towards his fellow man. He needs to learn that the all mighty dollar is a double edged sword. On one hand it can make him very wealthy, but if its made by trampling others? It's going to really hurt on the long, pitiful, slide down to the bottom of that toxic pool! Life is far to short to deal with such imbeciles on a daily basis.

[Porcupine]

3. He spends nine months a year in Hawaii, poor thing.

Ok, 2 votes is what I got. Jail it is.

[Wetzelbill]

4. in prison, he'll be the law that gets broken

I don't even know what that means. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. If you do nothing, and he's busted

you could be charged with complicity.

If that doesn't settle it, I dunno what will.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I, for one, would applaud you if you did.

The field of real estate is full of crooks and worse who give those of us trying to do an honest job a bad name. Go for it!