Show Notes
This week on Fraud in America, we’re doing something very different — speaking with corporate defense attorney, the lawyers who are generally fighting against the claims of whistleblowers in court.
Eric Sitarchuk is a Partner at Morgan Lewis, and he’s sitting down with us today to discuss what whistleblowers get right and what it’s really like to work on the side of companies accused of fraud.
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