Long story short: I was hired to build a website and somehow it turned into a B2B. I was effectively acting CTO for the 4 1/2 years I was there, so I know _everything_ - and I was the only IT person for most of that time.

Anyway, the founders turned out to be fundamentally criminals - the CEO flat out lied to a customer about the nature of the data they were going to get and the customer eventually figured it out. They threatened to sue, etc. When the attempt to gaslight the board of the customer failed, I got strong armed to actually the build the system to generate the data the customer wanted - I was owed $20k in invoices by then... (don't ask, my fault entirely) and if they had been sued, I would never get my money...

So I built it, contract saved, then I got forced out of the company (again, long story, lots of stress..) After the CEO sent me a email mocking me for quitting, I had a nervous breakdown.

A year later, I am still troubled by the whole thing. These people harmed not just me, but the sales guys and the other part time contractors who they yanked around. There is no reason to suspect they have changed their behavior, so they are a threat to everyone that they do business with.

The NDA I signed covers "business info" in a general way, but disclosure of criminal acts certainly is an exception. I can prove all my assertions as I was there and have the email trail. So what do I do? My comment history will show I've ranted about sociopaths, but now that I'm feeling much better in general, I still feel the need to do something based on professional ethics... These people, as I learned out later, have done business like this for the past 30 years - the guy who introduced me finally told me some stories - damn idiot...

thanks.