Dems know how to use the old NDA trick to keep them from going to jail.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently paid off a former health director who was intimately involved in crafting COVID-19 policy housing patients with elderly folks in nursing homes and causing countless deaths.
Whitmer abruptly and unexpectedly paid off former state health department director Robert Gordon a bounty of $155,506 in which he signed a non-disclosure agreement of sorts. Critics are calling this a hush money payment in a desperate attempt to protect Whitmer from a criminal probe.
Interesting link...
Looks like you can’t hide behind an NDA to avoid reporting illegal activity...
I've signed a number of these over the years. In my professional career, they are standard part of the documentation package when on boarding to a company as an employee or by contract. Went leaving a company, it's not uncommon to have a NDA flashed at you to sign. Some times I sign and sometimes I don't at this stage. Only one time have I been offered $$$ to sign a NDA and in that case I did take the $$$ as it applied to sensitive but not at all potentially illegal info. The company was discussing an acquisition by another corporation and wanted to tightly control proprietary business info.
From my experience, most NDAs are long on dire consequences that are in reality largely non-enforceable. I guarantee you that if there were a civil, criminal or legislative investigation active or even the risk of one I would have legal representation in a flash. A NDA is primarily enforceable in circumstances of disclosing proprietary info to a news reporter or competing company.
I don't post a lot but from time to time, I will sometimes speak on some things involving a tech subject where you might detect something not mentioned. In very rare circumstances there could be a NDA factor but normally it is simply professional ethics.
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