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What is the name of your state? VA
This is a long story so I'll just give you the highlights. I've been working as a computer programming consultant with this company for three years. Two years ago, they restructured and changed their name. Officially, they are a new and separate company; however, all of the same employees are working here with the same physical location as the prior company. Around that same time, a new bookkeeper was hired. The president is a lawyer who does not participate in the day to day operations of the company. The vice president is in charge on a day to day basis and the bookkeeper works directly under him. The rest of us pee-ons just show up every day. From the start, it was evident to all of us that the vice president and bookkeeper had a "special" relationship whereby she was constantly spending beyond our means and appeared to be skimming off the top. It was part of our verbal employment agreement with the company that they would provide 100% of our health/life/dental insurance and would match up to 1% of our annual salaries in a 401K that they had set up. In April of this year, I found out that our insurance policies had been cancelled for nonpayment of premiums back in February without any notice to us whatsoever. I then found out that no money had been put into the 401K since November of last year, despite the fact that the company had continued to take money for the 401K out of our paychecks. I confronted management and they promised that it would be taken care of immediately. The insurance was reinstated in May of this year - which left all of us with a two-month lag in coverage. The 401K has NEVER been paid, and money has continued to be deducted from paychecks all along. Now, I have found that the insurance policies were cancelled November 1st for nonpayment of premiums once again. None of us were notified until now - almost two months later! Also, about three months ago, the president discovered an unauthorized charge on his credit card by the bookkeeper and ordered the vice president to fire her. Since that time, I have taken over bookkeeping duties temporarily. By doing so, I have uncovered evidence that proves that the former bookkeeper received at least twice her stated salary over the past two years in "extra benefits" she received under the table. I have also uncovered evidence that the vice president not only knew about her actions, but signed many of the checks himself and paid himself under the table quite a few times as well. Now my question is what do I do with the evidence? The president is not exactly someone I trust and I suspect that he was aware of the monies taken by the vice president (but not those given to the bookkeeper). I want to make sure that these people are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They have jeopardized my health, my family's health, my fellow employees' health. They have lied to us on more than one occasion about the status of our benefits. They have paid us with rubber paychecks on several occasions, all the while blaming the company's troubles on lack of cash flow. I can prove with the evidence that I have found that there was sufficient cash flow - it just wasn't going to the places it was supposed to be going. I have copies of EVERYTHING, so I can prove all of my allegations. Now, I need to know who to give them to. What do you suggest?
This is a long story so I'll just give you the highlights. I've been working as a computer programming consultant with this company for three years. Two years ago, they restructured and changed their name. Officially, they are a new and separate company; however, all of the same employees are working here with the same physical location as the prior company. Around that same time, a new bookkeeper was hired. The president is a lawyer who does not participate in the day to day operations of the company. The vice president is in charge on a day to day basis and the bookkeeper works directly under him. The rest of us pee-ons just show up every day. From the start, it was evident to all of us that the vice president and bookkeeper had a "special" relationship whereby she was constantly spending beyond our means and appeared to be skimming off the top. It was part of our verbal employment agreement with the company that they would provide 100% of our health/life/dental insurance and would match up to 1% of our annual salaries in a 401K that they had set up. In April of this year, I found out that our insurance policies had been cancelled for nonpayment of premiums back in February without any notice to us whatsoever. I then found out that no money had been put into the 401K since November of last year, despite the fact that the company had continued to take money for the 401K out of our paychecks. I confronted management and they promised that it would be taken care of immediately. The insurance was reinstated in May of this year - which left all of us with a two-month lag in coverage. The 401K has NEVER been paid, and money has continued to be deducted from paychecks all along. Now, I have found that the insurance policies were cancelled November 1st for nonpayment of premiums once again. None of us were notified until now - almost two months later! Also, about three months ago, the president discovered an unauthorized charge on his credit card by the bookkeeper and ordered the vice president to fire her. Since that time, I have taken over bookkeeping duties temporarily. By doing so, I have uncovered evidence that proves that the former bookkeeper received at least twice her stated salary over the past two years in "extra benefits" she received under the table. I have also uncovered evidence that the vice president not only knew about her actions, but signed many of the checks himself and paid himself under the table quite a few times as well. Now my question is what do I do with the evidence? The president is not exactly someone I trust and I suspect that he was aware of the monies taken by the vice president (but not those given to the bookkeeper). I want to make sure that these people are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They have jeopardized my health, my family's health, my fellow employees' health. They have lied to us on more than one occasion about the status of our benefits. They have paid us with rubber paychecks on several occasions, all the while blaming the company's troubles on lack of cash flow. I can prove with the evidence that I have found that there was sufficient cash flow - it just wasn't going to the places it was supposed to be going. I have copies of EVERYTHING, so I can prove all of my allegations. Now, I need to know who to give them to. What do you suggest?
