The Expert Podcast

If you consider yourself an amateur investigator if you're good at doing research and you find a lot of stuff online, you might be thinking how can I make money doing this Well, you could become a licensed private investigator but that's a long drawn out process where you have to have certain licenses experience past exams And you could certainly do that. However there's another way that you can make money with doing research online and being a sleuth online And that's what's called whistleblower. Profitability. Now you see a link on the screen This is for a law firm We have no association with them We're not, you know advocating for them And also, you know we're not trying to ride on their coattails We don't have any connection with this company but it's an example. Of a law firm that does whistleblower cases What does whistleblower mean?

Well if you look down here, there are federal and state whistleblower reward programs and they list them false claims act securities and exchange commission commodities futures IRS. These are all federal laws and regulations that say if say, company is doing something wrong…

And…you bring it to the attention of the federal government. If the federal government benefits from it you get some of the money For example the IRS program. If you show somebody doing tax fraud and the IRS recovers that fraud, they give a percentage to the whistleblower. False claims act is where if somebody is defrauding the government like they're putting Medicare fraud through or if you're a defense contractor and you're over billing…the government, then if you turn them in and the government benefits from it either saving money or even if they get fines from that company. You as a whistleblower can get money from it now maybe a drawn out process and it may take some time.

But there are these programs in mind So, you know forget about this You know there's one particular law firm Phillips and Cohen. I'm sure they're good. You know I'm sure they're legitimate. but like I said we don't have any association with them, but do some research. You know read their website read other websites about how this whistleblower program works.

You may or may not need an attorney to do this. You may be able to do it by yourself, but you do want to understand the process. And many of the cases that we do are for clients that are basically fraud, amateur fraud investigators that are looking at Hey I found this online scheme the second one here securities and exchange commission. I found this company offering a 20% return per month. I know it's a scam.

Can you look into it And we get some evidence and give it to them And then they'll go ahead and turn it in for the whistleblower program. and many of these clients actually make money doing this That's how they make a living. They put in a bunch of cases and some of them turn out well some of them don't, but if you find yourself to be an amateur type of investigator, You may want to look into. Different options for monetizing that interest that you have if you have the time and effort to put into searching for that needle in a haystack and you can find evidence. That would qualify under.

compensation or reward from one of the many. Government whistleblower programs you can turn your hobby of investigating into a lucrative type business. You can read our website more for how to do this but it's a good way As a side gig or a side hustle to make some money as a kind of amateur private investigator.