QUESTION
I have been retaliated against in the past for reporting fraud within a large IT enviroment and I am fearful of retaliation, I have young children and I really need the job. This has to do with Sarbanes Oxley controls. This has come in a series of unjustified demotions for me. In desperation I did my own background check on the CTO that retaliated against me and took my promotion (this was pre sox around the end of 2002). He has lied on his resume and he does not have a degree in Computer science (which I suspected as he’s pretty clueless). That degree that he has is from a diploma mill (Buxton College, London), you pay $325 and they will send you a degree immediately – no course work involved. For $550 you can even get a phd. This is easily verifiable but since he is no in charge of the IT security departments he can get away with it and make weak people look the other way.
Since this person is tasked with PCI, SOX 302 and 801 attestations as a CTO of a very large and public company I believe that this is a major problem. Additionally in the process of doing this he has mislead external auditors, board of directors and others in IT internal control matters. Since I have retaliated against in the past I am hesitant on reporting this and it will ruin me as the auditing firms and partners have verified questionable controls over the years. I have tried to tell them but they are more concerned with there fees and its 2 of the big 4. Additionally when I did report this our board had our external auditor KPMG audit of my department and my claims. KPMG sent out somebody that was a fraud themselves as a “management consultant” and then told the board exactly what they wanted to hear. I am still living in hell because of all of the fraud
Mardoff’s CFO had a bogus degree too - Do I have any recourse? I can prove this a lot better. Could someone answer this question?
Thanks
Bubba
