Unfortunately, I know nothing more about this whole situation other than this blogger’s writeup and now, your additional information. The gist of the blogger’s article seems to only pull together what I note in my prior post.
That said, can you please show me where “journalistic ethics” define the need to list when a source did something with a credit card application which allegedly got them fired, therefore potentially discrediting the whistleblowing that source then does?
Personally, I don't think there's ever been a whistleblower that wasn't accused by their former company of being less than perfect on the job in an attempt to discredit the source.
fiscon1, the poster of the thread, is Mike Volpe, the blogger. We've been calling him out, but he has yet to acknowledge himself.