When does someone become a whistleblower, instead of another disgruntled employee?
Over the past month, the man who sparked the KPMG audit leaks scandal has most definitely become the former. Let’s call him Big W.
His revelations that KPMG partners misused confidential client information while pitching for new business have already led to the resignation of the firm’s chair and CEO. Clients are walking and KPMG’s reputation is in freefall.
But Big W was not always on the right side of the line. That only changed after Senator Deborah O’Neill took up his cause in March.
Even KPMG is now calling him a whistleblower, after earlier describing him as “a former employee [who] has made multiple allegations in relation to inappropriate conduct”.
