they deliberately breached my contract as well and treated everyone like shit (forcibly reinterpreting the sales guy's contracts to avoid paying them what they were owed, etc)

now that I think about it, these are more in the line of 'immoral' subject to civil penalties / civil suits as opposed to criminal acts against the public good, like dumping toxic waste...

so the general ethical quandary is 'to what extent am I responsible for not informing other who will be harmed by their actions?' The reason I ask is that the person who could have informed me, didn't, and so I ended up in this mess. I don't want that to happen to other people - I would have done it a year ago, but I was exhausted with everything.

Everyone before me has made the same decision, to not tell people... and so they have been getting away with this general stuff for 30 years. Back room gossip only goes so far and now they are loose in the IT community, thanks to me. I should have immediately quit when I was feeling the impulse.