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From: rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Honesty (New Subject?)
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 22:58:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 22:58:39 1986
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In article <2444@sdcc6.UUCP> kemasa@sdcc6.UUCP (kemasa) writes:
>If someone  commits  a crime at what point do you turn them in or do
>you?  

>... a person that  I  used  to  be
>friends  with   committed   insurance  fraud  along with filing a
>false police report, I heard this second hand and  have  no  real
>proof,  but if I notify  someone  it  could  be proved.  

>... As  it  turns  out if I  do  report  it to Public Insurance
>Service (the person is not insured by them) they will  pay  $5000
>for  fraud  againest  any  insurance  company  if  the person  is
>found  guilty, as for the $5k I think if I did that I would  turn
>it  over  to charity.  

I don't "turn in" people I love or respect if there is no violence involved.  
If there is violence, I will do whatever needs to be done to stop it and
protect the victims from future abuse.  Shy of that, just about any
situation can be amended if the person wants to make things right.  If
the person DOESN'T, then I dissociate myself lest they pull some crap
on me, or attempt to ivolve me in their problems.  I also lose enough
respect so that I MIGHT turn them in if they managed to involve me a
second time.

I would never turn someone in unless I could produce the proof MYSELF.
Knowing someone who has said that there is proof isn't good enough, and 
you could get yourself into hot water by defaming someone unless YOU 
have the evidence to back it up.

Since you don't particularly care about the money, maybe you can act as
some sort of a go-between for the investigators and the people who actually
have the proof.

-bob.