Retaliation
If you were punished for speaking up
Reporting fraud can cost you the job before it ever pays. A demotion, cut hours, a sudden bad review, a firing, a name passed around to the next employer: the False Claims Act, securities law and many state laws protect against these, and the deadlines are short and strict. They run from the day it happened, not the day it hurt.
Folarin Adebayo handles these cases. He starts by asking for dates, because the timeline is the case.
Deadlines are short and strict
Back pay and reinstatement can be on the table
Keep a log: dates, names, what changed
What it looks like
The ways people are punished
It rarely arrives with a note saying why.
Lost duties or title
Moved off the accounts you knew, or handed a job with no real work.
Fired after a report
Let go days or weeks after you raised a concern, with a different reason on paper.
Pay or hours cut
A bonus withheld, a schedule changed, a raise that vanished.
A name passed around
References that hurt, or word that reaches the next employer.
Were you punished for reporting?
Write down what changed and when, then send me a message. The clock may already be running.